Comprising of a downsized netball sports pitch, 'Man to Man' is a restaging of a piece first devised in 2002. The original work was created with an aim to explore the hidden world of women's sports; a world which the artist was heavily involved in from age 13, having played netball at county, regional and club 1st league level, training and competing all over Wales. The original performance was conceived with the audience as key actors. Their ability to watch was limited, forcing them to voyeuristically observe the displaced players whose game was out of context to the gallery in which they were transplanted into. 

 In the reworked performance at Marlborough, Broadmeadow will be reinterpreting the piece by adding in a live soundscape to the work. Contact microphones on the team will amplify their breathing allowing the viewers an almost uncomfortably direct experience of the players’ physicality. Broadmeadow has also written a spoken word poem for the players which will be revealed as the match unfolds. This narration will be randomised through set play and allude to the internal monologues that define a game, whilst also addressing wider reaching pressures that women in sports face.

The soundscape will be engineered by Broadmeadow’s long term collaborator, composer and producer Matt Faulkner.

 Selected Bio:

Megan Broadmeadow b.1978 is a Welsh artist, who lives and works in Bristol.

Her practice encompasses installation, performance, sculpture and interactive digital technologies including VR. Her work has been exhibited and performed across the UK and internationally including UK solo touring exhibition and live events: SEEK PRAY ADVANCE, Southwark Park Galleries, London, Green Man Festival, Wales, Quad, Derby, Experimentica, Cardiff and CCQ magazine between 2018 -2019. Solo Presentations: ITV Creates, UK National TV broadcast ident, 2021/22, Chapter Arts (lightbox) Cardiff, 2021, National Eisteddfod Wales, Collaborative commission with Musician Gruff Rhys, 2018, Cardiff Contemporary, 2016, Plymouth Arts Center, 2015, Galeria Melissa London, 2015.  Awards/ prizes: Prix Ars Electronica, highly commended digital animation 2021 & 2022, Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Holder 2015. Group Shows:  Thinking is Making: Objects in a Space’ Standpoint London, 2023, ‘Dois Pra Ca’Oasis, Rio De Janerio, 2022, ‘You Feel Me’ FACT Liverpool, 2019, ‘It was a Roadside Picnic’ New Art City 2022, UK/HK University of Salford Art Collection, Open Eye Gallery and Center for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) 2021. Directing/ Curating: SPUR.WORLD 2020/ 21, LLAWN festival of live art, Wales 2019. Megan is owner and director of D-UNIT project space in Bristol www.dunit.space. Megan studied at the Slade School of Art and Goldsmiths, she has taught BA fine art at Oxford Brookes and Bournemouth School of art.