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A
Virtual Walk of
The Boreal Poetry Garden
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The artist gratefully
acknowledges her
long-standing gratitude to The Canada Council for the Arts and the
Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council.
Key words
artist's garden
art and mapping
ciné-poetry
eco-art
eco-phenomenology
eco-poetry
environmental art
environmental poetry
geoaesthetics
land art
landscape and poetry
memory maps
Newfoundland artist
Newfoundland dialect
Newfoundland poetry
phenomenology and art
phenomenology and poetry
place-based poetry
place-based performance art
poetry art garden
poetry garden walk
poetry walks
site-specific poetry
site-specific performance art
video-poetry
walking artist
walking poet
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Gallery
Representation
Paul
Petro
Contemporary Art
Toronto
News, recent and upcoming
Exhibitions in 2017
Photography in Canada: 1960–2000 /
La photographie au Canada : 1960–2000
group exhibition curated by Andrea Kunard
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
April 6–September 17, 2017.
What Came to
Light at Blast Hole Pond River
Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
solo exhibition
a Featured
Exhibition in the Scotiabank
CONTACT Photography Festival,
Toronto
opening reception: Friday, May 5, 7-10 pm
May 5–June 3, 2017.
To the Blast
Hole Pond River
solo exhibition
Fogo Island Gallery,
Fogo Island Inn,
Joe Batt's Arm, Newfoundland
May 19–through October 2017.
So
Lightly Here
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
group exhibition
opening reception: Friday, June 9, 7-11 pm
June 9–July 15, 2017.
Belonging to
a Place: An Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts
group exhibition curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen
Scrap Metal Gallery
11 Dublin Street, Unit E, Toronto
opening: Thursday June 22, 6-8 pm
June 22–September 23, 2017.
Bonavista Biennale: Art
Encounters on the Edge
a multi-site group exhibition on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland,
co-curated by Catherine Beaudette and Patricia Grattan
opening event: Saturday August 19
A Canada 150
Project presented by 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects
August 17–September 17, 2017.
Imago Mundi Canada
group exhibition
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Palazzo
Loredan, Venice, Italy
August 29–October 29, 2017.
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses
a touring retrospective exhibition
co-curated by
Susan Gibson Garvey and Andrea Kunard
organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in partnership with Dalhousie
Art Gallery:
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, New Brunswick
opening: Saturday September 23, 5 pm
September 23, 2017–January 7, 2018
With a major
publication including essays by Susan Gibson Garvey, Andrea Kunard, Robert Macfarlane, and Joan
M. Schwartz; and an ekphrastic poem by Don McKay; co-published by Goose
Lane Editions and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
Screenings
Canadian
High Commission, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, England,
June 15, 2016 at 6 pm.
Symposium: Language,
Landscape
& the Sublime, Schumacher College/Dartington, Totnes, Devon,
England, June
29–30, 2016.
Walking Women,
Somerset House, London, England, July 17, 2016 at 1-2 pm.
Geumgang
Nature Art Biennale, video exhibition Water, Korean Nature Artists
Association YATOO, Chungnam, Republic of Korea, August 10-November 30,
2016.
Invited
Residencies & Workshops
Enlichenment,
Enlivenment & The Poetics of Place a 5-day workshop with
Marlene Creates, Trevor Goward,
and Don McKay
Clearwater Valley, BC, April 24-29, 2017.
Artist Talks
Stroud
Valleys Artspace, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
with Clive Adams of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural
World,
Sunday June 26, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.
Awards
Special Recognition Award from
the International Film Festival for Environment, Health, and Culture,
Jakarta, Indonesia, announced May 21, 2015.
Royal Reel Award at the 2015 Canada
International Film Festival, Vancouver,
announced February 20, 2015.
The Grand
Jury Award at the Yosemite
International Film Festival
announced October 30, 2014.
The BMW Exhibition Prize
for "an
outstanding Open or Featured exhibition" in the Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival 2013, awarded for the exhibition Marlene Creates: selected works from 30
years, 1982-2012 at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
jury citation: Marlene Creates
powerfully explores the themes of place, landscape, and temporality in
images that foreground questions of perception. Poetic and meditative,
her work explores the traces of human presence in the environment and
invites viewers to consider both our lasting effects on the land, as
well as the ephemerality of our presence. We were really struck by the
way in which her work explored temporality using the documentary
function of photography in ways that weren’t simply about catching a
moment but which unfolded in time.
Books
Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland
Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
by Marlene Creates (Boulder Publications, 2015), hardcover, full
colour, 152 pages
Interviews
posted online
Exploring Place, Memory Maps, and Language
with Marlene Creates, interview with Dale Jarvis for the
Heritage Foundation's Intangible Cultural Heritage and CHMR Radio,
Memorial University, St. John's
September 22, 2016 (30 min.)
Interview
with Angela Antle about Brickle,
Nish, and Knobbly on Weekend Arts Magazine, CBC
Radio One, St. John's
April 25, 2015 (12 min.)
Marlene
Creates - A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms
for Ice and Snow
interview with the Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council, posted November 5, 2014.
On Leaving Only Footprints—An Interview
with
Marlene Creates
interview with Walter Lewis, University of Sunderland, UK,
posted
October 1,
2014.
The Proust Questionnaire: Marlene Creates
National Gallery of Canada's on-line magazine,
posted May 7, 2014.
Atlas
Place: Understanding
Where We Are,
interview with Glenn Bach, Mar
Vista,
California, posted May 6, 2014.
"Impermanence
and Temporality,"
interview with Leah Oates,
NY
Arts Magazine, November 2008.
The White Water
Gallery presents Marlene Creates, interview with Gil
McElroy, Maclean Hunter Cable 12, North Bay, September 1986 (22 min.)
Artist-in-residence
and Community-based Projects
University
of British Columbia Okanagan,
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies,
Kelowna, BC
Award
Ribbons for Woodhaven Nature Conservancy
in conjunction with Eco-Art
Incubator
March 3 - 24, 2013.
Award
Ribbons for Places in Pictou County, in
collaboration with local participants as
part
of the W(here) Festival, curated
by Mary MacDonald
"a
multi-site, performative event on the relationship between community,
place and art in Pictou County, Nova Scotia"
June 26 - 30, 2012.
Appointments
& Professional memberships
associate member of PLaCE
(Place Location Context and Environment) International Research Centre,
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
appointed May 25, 2012.
member of the Walking
Artists Network, Institute for Performing Arts Development,
University of East London, UK.
member of the Ecoart Network,
appointed April 2013.
member of the first Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE) for
the Town of Portugal
Cove-St. Philips, Newfoundland,
appointed March 11, 2014.
Recent
articles and reviews
Andrew
Vowles, “Poet, environmentalist Marlene Creates to hold memory mapping
workshop and share film about her work”, Guelph Today, Guelph, Ontario,
posted October 12, 2016
Emily
Urquhart. “The
Unique Language of Newfoundland”, Hakai
Magazine: Coastal Science and Societies, Victoria, BC,
posted online December 2, 2015
"Marlene
Creates Makes Art in Tune with the Times" blog by Gloria Hickey,
July 22, 2013
"Photographer
Marlene Creates Honoured at Contact" by Sarah Milroy, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May
31, 2013, p. L4
"Environmental
Art and a new Creation: Marlene Creates' Art of Place"
by Jenn Craft
posted in Transpositions,
blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the
University of St Andrews, UK
February 27, 2012
"Poetry and Geology: Being Present to the Ancient Earth––Marlene
Creates' Boreal Poetry Garden" blog by Hallelujah
Truth,
August 21, 2012
"Between
Two Points," by Andrea Kunard,
BlackFlash,
vol 28.2, Saskatoon, Winter 2011, p. 20-22
"Marlene
Creates: Of Words and Woods" by Robert Finley, Canadian
Art,
September 15, 2011
Recent
Books and Publications
–Derek Gladwin. “Ecocritical and
Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and
Place-Based Poetry,” in Ecocriticism
and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial
Literary Studies, eds. Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M.
Battista, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (UK) and New York (USA), 2016.
–Marlene Creates. “A Newfoundland
Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow”,
portfolio in Billie: Undercurrents
in Atlantic Canadian Visual Culture, vol. 1, issue 1,
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, 2015, p.6-13.
–Robert Finley. “Marlene Creates’ Boreal
Poetry Garden,” in The Good
Gardener?: Nature, Humanity and the Garden,
eds. Annette
Giesecke and Naomi Jacobs, Artifice Books, London (UK), 2014
–Carmen Concilio. “Marlene Creates’s
Eco-Consciousness as Land Artist, Photographer and Poet,” and
“Questioning Environmental Issues. An Interview with Marlene Creates,”
in New Critical Patterns in
Postcolonial Discourse: Historical Traumas and Environmental Issues,
Trauben, Turin, Italy, 2012
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