Intercity/Archive

Intercity Archive came about as a response to uncertainty.

For four years artists have been given access to the foyer space
to make and show work during the Plymouth Art Weekender.

This year the building is in flux, caught somewhere between

the last days of occupation by Network Rail in its existing state
and a redevelopment scheme that will see the building clad
and re-imagined as the Gateway to Plymouth.

Unsure of access, Intercity Archive, was prepared as a flexible

medium for presenting work. Its digital form allowing online
access and last minute printing and pasting to exterior
of the building.

This archive records fixed points in each of the artist’s work,

while its form points to the precarious nature of making
and exhibiting outside the established system.
Intercity/Archive/PAST
 Intercity
BRIDGETTE ASHTON
JOANNA BRINTON
HOLLY OWEN
GRAHAM SEATON

Intercity brings together new work by Bridgette Ashton, Joanna Brinton,

Holly Owen and Graham Seaton. From sculpture, to photography
and print this exhibition marks a point of convergence and conversation
between the artists involved. Based for the past year at Plymouth University
as part of the AA2A scheme, their diverse practices have intersected,
crossed and developed over time.

The exhibition is presented in the foyer of Intercity House – a ten-storey

office block which acts as a fixed point in a place of movement, towering
over Plymouth Train Station. The building was originally intended to
be the northern point of Armada Way counterbalancing the Civic Centre
at the southern end. As such it offers a unique exhibition space for both
viewers and artists, negotiating the different temporal experiences the site
allows. A busy commuter might notice something different each day while
a traveller between connections could have a more immersive but singular
encounter with the works on display.

With thanks to Network Rail and all at Intercity House.

Image: Graham Seaton Exhibition is viewed from the street
22-27 September, 2015

Intercity House
North Road East, Plymouth PL4 6AB
www.plymouthartweekender.com
Joanna Brinton
Blackwater
newspaper edition
INTERCITY 15
Joanna Brinton
Blinded we peep
glass, water, lead, oil
INTERCITY 15
Bridgette Ashton
Arch
cardboard, glue
INTERCITY 15
Intercity/Archive/PAST
 Intercity 16
BRIDGETTE ASHTON
JOANNA BRINTON
HOLLY OWEN
GRAHAM SEATON

Intercity 16 marks a return to the foyer of Intercity House, Plymouth Train

Station, for the work of Bridgette Ashton, Joanna Brinton, Holly Owen,
and Graham Seaton. Bringing together sculpture, photography, print
and publications Intercity 16 is a continuation of the conversation begun
in Intercity, which ran through Plymouth Weekender 2015.

The featured artists, all of who were based in Plymouth through 2014-15
have since dispersed, undertaking residencies and exhibiting across the UK.
Intercity 16 is a return and a revaluation of places and practices that have
developed over the last year.

The Intercity House site is a fixed point in a place of movement, towering

over Plymouth Train Station. As such it offers a unique exhibition space for
both viewers and artists negotiating the different temporal experience the
site allows. A busy commuter might glimpse something different each day
while a traveller between connections might have a more immersive but
singular encounter with the work on display.

Exhibition is viewed from the street

22-29 September, 2016

Intercity House
North Road East, Plymouth PL4 6AB
www.plymouthartweekender.com
Graham Seaton
Model for Anti-Monument, Series GS719
fibreboard, wood, pasted photos, acrylic, perspex, glass, aluminium
INTERCITY 16
Joanna Brinton
What Once Was Here
postcard edition
INTERCITY 16
Bridgette Ashton
Untitled
found book, cardboard, glue
INTERCITY 16
Holly Owens
SPHAGNUM MOSS REMEMBERS
Sphagnum Moss, carpet tiles
INTERCITY 16
Intercity/Archive/PAST
Intercity 17
Bridgette Ashton, Joanna Brinton and Graham Seaton.

Each year, during Plymouth Art Weekender, the windows and foyer space
of Intercity House are converted into a temporary exhibition space.
The building towers above Plymouth Railway Station but is easily missed.
Intercity is an opportunity for passers by and PAW visitors to punctuate their
journeys with a glimpse of something new.

Bridgette Ashton
Specimen
digital print on paper

A collage of printed imitation minerals suggesting flooring used

in 1950s municipal buildings.

Joanna Brinton
Pause
emulsion, drill cotton, turmeric dye, rope, brass eyelets

Pause draws on the hastily whitewashed windows of a shut up shop,

reducing haphazard swirls to a series of brush marks, a pattern of white
on glass. To one side a sun bleached yellow curtain sets the stage for
a performance of light so that print and projection can combine as the shadows
of the strokes move through the day.

Graham Seaton
UNMONUMENT GS819/09
fibreboard, wood, emulsion

Taking references from unfinished architectural constructions these series

of sculptures embrace the use of cheap mass produced materials whilst
playing with ideas of scale and materiality. The pieces are consciously
ambiguous in terms of their proposed meaning and/or function. Any specific
references are concealed within pasted photos and layered within the exterior
surface of the finished/unfinished structures.

Intercity House, Plymouth Railway Station, North Road East, Plymouth, PL4 6AB
Viewable 24 hours, 16-25 Sept
#PAW17
www.plymouthartweekender.com
Joanna Brinton
Pause (WIP)
emulsion, rope, saffron, canvas
INTERCITY 17
Graham Seaton
UNMONUMENT, Series GS819/09
fibreboard, wood, pasted photos, acrylic
INTERCITY 17
Bridgette Ashton
Aggregate floor
digital print
INTERCITY 17
Intercity/Archive/PRESENT
Graham Seaton
Joint
photo-construction
INTERCITY 18
Bridgette Ashton
Worth’s Folly maquettes
mixed media
INTERCITY 18
 Events momentous register
on black through glass
they fleet
no pounding trace
embossed
sun crazed
across our gaze they leap

Once more the archive

flicks its sting
updating endlessly
distinction lost
before and so
mutating generously

This gift a type of accuracy

in time could not forgive
the chance
to alter to erase
our ever slipping memory

Joanna Brinton
Blackwater Part 2 (work in progress)
INTERCITY 18
With thanks to Network Rail and all at Intercity House.
All images courtesy of the artists: Bridgette Ashton,
Joanna Brinton and Graham Seaton
with the exception of archive image: Bernard Mills