Megan Broadmeadow
Solo Exhibitions and Commissions:
ITV creates: Sculptural ident and storyboard. Screened nationally ITV September 2021 & 2022.
Jupiter Artland Sculpture park: Stage design and festival artwork, Jupiter Rising 2021 & 2022
Malaphors: Y Canu Chalkydri, in collaboration with Abi Hubbard, for Chapter, Cardiff, 2020
LLAWN, Llandudno Arts Weekend - Guest Curator of Wale’s largest Art Festival. 2019
The Briny Deep and Carnifal Y Môr, Major site-specific commission for National Eisteddfod Wales,
partnered with Visit Wales and Gruff Rhys (Musician) 2018
Astro Raggi, Plymouth Arts Center. England. Exhibition open 2016 -17
A corruption of Mass, Standpoint Gallery, London.2016
Mercury 13 Galeria Melissa, Covenant Garden, London. 2015
Under The Influence, Unit#1, g39 Gallery, Cardiff. 2014
Imagination Orbits, Gwynedd Museum, Bangor. 2011
It’s a Wonder/ Dyna Rhyfedod. National Eisteddfod Wales, Mold.2007
Theatre Freuddwydion /Theatre of Dreams. Galeri Caernarfon. 2006
Wish You Were Here? MOSTYN, Llandudno, North Wales. 2003
Screenings/ Festivals:
Format Festival, (with Daad Collective) 2023 Information HERE
VideoClub Third Thursday, 2022 HERE
Palace Film Festival Bristol QUEERING THE METAVERSE (VR PROGRAMME), 2021
Glyn Vivian Almost live, Special commission, Premiered May 22, 2020 Watch HERE
Peer to Peer: UK/Hong Kong online festival: https://peertopeerexchange.org/ 2020
Before Chaos: A Decade of VideoClub, Waterloo, 2017 HERE
Selected VI & Both Sides Now 3, Screenings in East Asia. – Videoclub, full venue list HERE 2016
Blinc *special commission* digital arts and projection festival, Conwy, North Wales.2015
Touring Solo Exhibitions:
2018 - 2019
SEEK PRAY ADVANCE- Episode 1, Eyes Only. CGP London
SEEK PRAY ADVANCE- Episode 2, The Fourth Kind. Green Man Festival.
SEEK PRAY ADVANCE- Episode 3, Operation Starlight, QUAD, Derby.
Awards:
2022 Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Computer Animation - Highly Commended (with Daad Collective).
2021 Prix Ars Electronica 2021 Computer Animation - Highly Commended.
2915 Elephant Trust grant for exhibition at Plymouth Arts Center
2015 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Standpoint Gallery, London.
2014 Axis web MA Stars, selected by Judith Carlton of Matts Gallery.
2013 Arts Council of Wales Research and Development Grant.
2011 Welsh Artist of the Year, Highly Commended prize.
Recent Lead Artist / Curated Projects:
D-UNIT, Founder and director of this Bristol based gallery and studios. Curated and produced 12 exhibitions featuring Bristol based and UK wide emerging artists.2021 - Onwards
SPUR.WORLD lead artist alongside JOEY HOLDER Year long online residency for 100 graduate artists from across the UK. conceived during lockdown and supported by Julia Greenway, Helen Starr and Theo Ellsion. https://spur.world/new/
LLAWN Llandudno Arts Festival. Guest curator of award winning of multi-arts festival with 60 artists from across the UK and Europe. 2019
Dippy About Nature National Museum Wales ,working with Youth Forum and Education team. 2019
Powder Works/Gwaith Powdwr. (with Julia Peat) 2 day arts festival for Gwynedd Wildlife Trust,
Discover Gwynedd, North Wales.2010
CELL, co-curated and managed group exhibitions in 3 museums in Ruthin, Wales.2011
Night Garden, curated with Julia Peat, Anderton Park, Cheshire Year of the Garden project.2008
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Thinking Is Making,Objects in a Space, Standpoint Gallery, London 2023
Dos Pra la, Dos Pra Ca, Oasis Gallery, Rio De Janerio, Brazil, 2022
You Feel Me – FACT, Liverpool curated by Helen Starr,2019
Fresh Meet, with Sarah Roberts and Mitra Saubury, EBC, Bristol 2017
Cardiff Contemporary, New commissioned work, October 2016.
Staging the Artwork, Article Gallery, Birmingham.2015
Play Me I’m Yours, Canary Wharf, London. 2015
Penumbra curated by VERB, APT gallery, Deptford, London.2014
To Begin at The Beginning, curated by Sam Perry, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, New York.
You Who Are Strangers, Peer Trialogues; Residency with Lisa Selby and Vera Kox. ASC Gallery, Southwark, London.
Box of Delights, Conwy Feast Festival, Conwy. Curated by Bedwyr Williams.2013
This is The End (Part 2) 319, Melrose New York. Curated by Christopher Kulendran Thomas.
Plants V’s Zombies, Boetzelaer|Nispen, De Clercqstraat 64, Amsterdam, NL.
The Man Don't Give A Fuck. Motorcade Flash Parade, Bristol.2012
11433.83 /Two Sides of the Same Coin. The Russian Frost Farmers & g39 Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2009
Locws 4, Art Across the City. Locws International, Swansea. 2009
Roadshow, Real Institute and Grizedale Arts, North Wales.2005
Selected Residencies:
2022 Dos Pra la, Dos Pra Ca, 3 week residency with Tactile Bosch at Oasis Gallery in Rio De Janerio
2017 QUAD, Derby Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality with Cursor Video
2014 Joya, Parque Natural Sierra María-Los Vélez, Spain.
2013 Escape the Contemporary, Treigniac Project, Treigniac, France.
2011 Assembly, National Theatre Wales, Galeri, Caernarfon.
2010 Mercedes Fire, IMOCA/ Good Hatchery, Ireland.
2010 Cerbyd, g39 gallery, Wales
2009 ArtEden, Arteden/Celfeden, Lonjer,Triest, Italy.
PERFORMANCE and DIRECTINGTheatre Cynefin: Associate director for community based outdoor immersive theatre company in North Wales.
4 full productions between 2007-2011
SCI FI CHOIR:Director (2017 -2019)
live performances: scratch show - Arnofini black box 2018,
full show: Experimentica, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2018, Green Man Festival 2019
Education:
2014 Goldsmiths College. MFA Fine Art. Distinction.
2002 Slade School of Art, BA Hons (1st Class).
Teaching:
2007 – 22 Arts University Bournemouth BA Fine Art Course.
2021 -22 Oxford Brookes. BA Fine Art
Other Employment:
Scenic Artist (painter and polycarving)
Working for: Netflix, BBC, ITV, Tiger Aspect, Bad wolf, The 345, Play Button Studios,
Johnny Mann Scenic and 4wood. 2015 onwards.
TV/ Radio:
ITV Wales – 20/09/2019 – Interview and feature on LLAWN festival
Radio Wales – Welsh Arts Show, 09/2019 Interview and feature on LLAWN festival
Sioe Gelf S4C Wales– 11/2018 – Interview and feature on Eisteddfod project
Publications/Online:
Thinking Is Making - Black Dog Press ISBN 978-1-912165-46-9
Welsh Arts Review – 09/2019 Review of LLAWN festival.
Garage/ VICE – Review of Seek Pray Advance, Episode 1
Wallpaper Magazine – Mercury 13 exhibition review: HERE
Dash Magazine – Artist of the week:
http://dashmagazine.net/?p=13839
Review by Judith Carlton, Matts Gallery for MA Stars:
http://www.axisweb.org/features/profile/mastars/megan-broadmeadow/
Penumbra –APT gallery. ISBN 978-0-9555666-9-1
One in the Other- G39 Guest Curated Season 2006-08. ISBN 978-0-9541810-6-2
Art Monthly, No 269, September 2003. Page35