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Artist Holly Davey commemorates 75 years since the Plymouth Blitz with a commission inspired by her family
history and Lee Miller’s photograph of a bombed out chapel. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery was one of
the few buildings to survive the bombing and is about to embark on a major redevelopment. Working with ideas
around objects, collection and memory, Davey’s sculptural intervention has taken a cabinet that usually displays
delicate pottery and filled it with rubble; reflecting on the layers of history the museum has witnessed, and the
central role it has played in shaping the city’s futures, from post war reconstruction to a new vision of Plymouth as
a city of culture.

Following on from this sculpture the artist will create a major public art commission for the facade of Plymouth
City Museum and Art Gallery when it closes its doors in September for its development into the Plymouth History
Centre. Holly Davey (born 1974) lives and works in Cardiff.

A Plymouth Arts Centre commission in partnership with Plymouth City Council (Arts and Heritage) for the History
Centre.