Rhiannon - Margam Country Park - Port Talbot, Wales.
N 51° 33.700 W 003° 43.913
30U E 449266 N 5712541
Rhiannon "Divine Queen" an abstract sculpture by David Peterson constructed in 1992 For the National Garden Festival. Now permanently located in Margam Country Park, Port Talbot, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMNZVJ
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/31/2015
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The Rhiannon metal sculpture, was relocated to Margam when the Ebbw Vale National Garden festival closed in 1992.
Entry to the Margam Country Park is free, but there is a charge for parking.
"Rhiannon was made for the 1992 Garden Festival Wales at Ebbw Vale and was sponsored by British Steel and Burt Boulton and Haywood. The catalogue for the public art programme for the Festival (ISBN 0-9519390-0-9) includes the following information provided by the artist:
The work is a female deity, a combination of the Minoan Snake Goddess from Knossos and the Welsh Divine Queen Rhiannon.
"The materials used relate to the heavy industrial immediate past of Ebbw Vale .. its manufacture .. involved all four elements - earth, air, fire and water - enabling (according to the Celts) the fifth element - magic - to appear.
The two buckets (the dress) refer to the two cauldrons often used by the Celts as votive offerings .. The heavily rivetted 'grab' becomes a bra for the two orbs, which in turn become the exposed breasts of the Minoan Goddess, and the bra straps become ribbons flowing in the wind." Text Source: (
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