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Swansea Museum Pontoon, Swansea Marina
Megan Broadmeadow’s inspiration for her work is derived from Swansea’s maritime history and the wider nautical world, which she initially perceived to be very masculine, particularly within the history of Swansea. In her further investigations however, she discovered that the nautical tradition also holds reverence to the female form. Theboat is a ‘she’ vessel, cradling the lives of the men who sail in her hull. In response to this, Broadmeadow has created a floating sculpture of a high-heeled shoe, which has masts and sails, and presents the ultimate female ship.
The high-heeled shoe represents the femininity issues surrounding the nautical world and the shopping culture omnipresent in every city. The work also links to the Swansea cockle women, those women who only wore shoes to enter the market, their simple life almost a million miles away from the highly groomed lifestyles of today
Megan Broadmeadow was born in Manchester and raised in north Wales, where she currently lives and works.
Broadmeadow studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art, and graduated in 2002. Since then she has exhibited and performed in Wales and England. She also works as an Associate Director for Cynefin Theatre Company.[/lang_en]
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Pontŵn yr Amgueddfa Abertawe, Marina Abertawe
Ysbrydoliaeth gwaith Megan Broadmeadow yw hanes morol Abertawe a’r byd morol ehangach, yr oedd yn y lle cyntaf yn ei weld fel rhywbeth gwrywaidd iawn, yn enwedig o ran hanes Abertawe. Wrth iddi archwilio ymhellach, fodd bynnag, darganfuwyd bod y traddodiad morol yn talu teyrnged i’r ffurf fenywaidd. Mae llong yn fenywaidd ac yn diogelu bywydau’r holl ddynion sy’n
hwylio arni. Er mwyn ymateb i hyn, mae Broadmeadow wedi creu cerflun arnofiol o esgid â sawdl uchel, y mae ganddi hwylbren a hwyl, ac yn cyflwyno’r llong fenywaidd ddelfrydol.
Mae’r esgid â sawdl uchel yn cynrychioli materion benyweidd-dra sy’n ymwneud â’r byd morol a’r diwylliant siopa sy’n hollbresennol ym mhob dinas. Mae’r gwaith hefyd yn cysylltu menywod cocos Abertawe, y menywod a oedd ond yn gwisgo’u hesgidiau i fynd i’r farchnad. Roedd eu bywydau’n hollol wahanol i fywydau breintiedig heddiw.
Ganwyd Megan Broadmeadow ym Manceinion a chafodd ei magu yng ngogledd Cymru lle mae’n byw ac yn gweithio ar hyn o bryd.
Astudiodd Broadmeadow, Gerflunwaith yn Ysgol Gelf Slade, a graddiodd yn 2002. Ers hynny mae wedi arddangos a pherfformio yng Nghymru a Lloegr. Mae hi hefyd yn gweithio fel cyfarwyddwr ar gyfer Cwmni Theatr Cynefin.
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