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Five2Watch: Museums


Axisweb has selected five artworks by contemporary artists whose work deals with museums and their role. Featuring: Lizzie Hughes, Lesley McShea, Martin Pover, Lee Weinberg and Shelley Castle 


Museum, 2016

Lizzie Hughes

Museum seeks to document all of the civic war memorials that exist in every sizable village, town and city in this country. As many of these structures have now either past or are approaching their centenary I am interested in considering the fragile nature of materials alongside the fragile nature of memory. Together the memorials form a staggering array of structures that all hold the same specific sculptural concern. The work will provide a singular holding place for all structures that pertain to commemorate those who have died as a result of war. The work will be a ‘museum’ to commemorate the commemorated.

Lizzie Hughes


Shaping Ceramics at the Jewish Museum, 2017

Lesley McShea

Lesley will be Artist in Residence during the Shaping Ceramics Exhibition at the Jewish Museum on Saturdays from 10.30-12.30 during January 2017. She will be demonstrating throwing techniques as used by Dame Lucie Rie.

Lesley Mcshea


Museum of Modern Art, 2015

Martin Pover

Interior of the new Museum of Modern Art, WARSAW 2015

Martin Pover


The Coming Community, Haifa Museum, 2017

Lee Weinberg

This group exhibition explored the way the term 'community' is defined through the works of contemporary artists, and the means through which communities are built. Drawing on Agamben's 'The Coming Community', the exhibition had set to explore the relationship between developing digital technologies and the definitions of identity and story telling in contemporary culture.

Artists: Rod Dickinson, Brody Condon, Cao Fei, Eli Gur Arie, Assi Meshulam, Block Group Collective, Orit Ben Shitrit, Vik Jacobson Frid, Neta Lieber Shefer, Sharone Lifschitz, Ilan Spira, Tamir Zadok, Elad Kopler, Angelica Sher

Lee Weinberg


Museum of Now, 2015

Shelley Castle

A socially engaged project in partnership with Torquay Museum creating new artefacts to go on display in the museum with local groups.

Shelley Castle


Published 07 July 2017

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