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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, the
Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council, and the Cultural Economic Development
Program of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Gallery
Representation
Paul Petro
Contemporary Art
Toronto
News
Awards
The Grand
Jury Award at the Yosemite
International Film Festival, awarded to the documentary video-poem
by Marlene Creates:
From the
Ground Tier to a Sparrow Batch: a Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for
Ice and Snow, Blast Hole Pond River, Winter 2012-2013
awarded on 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.
On-line
interviews
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
On Leaving Only Footprints—An Interview
with
Marlene Creates
interview with Walter Lewis, University of Sunderland, UK, posted
October 1,
2014
Marlene
Creates - A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms
for Ice and Snow
feature interview with the Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council,
posted November 5, 2014
"Impermanence
and Temporality,"
Marlene Creates interviewed by Leah Oates,
NY
Arts Magazine, November 2008
Exhibitions
A
Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
solo exhibition at Paul Petro
Contemporary Art, Toronto
May 1-30, 2015
A featured exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
opening reception Friday May 1, 7-10 pm.
With special thanks to the Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts
Screenings
From
the Ground Tier to a Sparrow Batch: a Newfoundland Treasury of Terms
for Ice and Snow, Blast Hole Pond River, Winter 2012-2013
a
documentary video-poem by Marlene Creates
– ViDEOTExT Festival,
Bramberg, Austria,
September 12, 2014
– St.
John's International Women's Film Festival, Johnson Geo Centre, St.
John's, Newfoundland, October 15, 2014 at 9:30 pm
– Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, NY, April
6-12, 2015
– Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention, Fairmont
Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Friday May 1, 2015 at 3 pm
– Women Directors' International Film Festival, University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India, March 14-16,
2015
River of Rain
a video-poem by Marlene Creates and Elizabeth Zetlin
– WADE IN screening as part of Eastern Edge Gallery's 30th anniversary
events 30/30
Vision
St. John's, Newfoundland, November 15,
2014 at 8 pm
Presentations
Explore a Boreal Forest through Poetry and
Multimedia
Marlene Creates in conversation with Dr. Derek Gladwin (Vanier Canada
Scholar, Department of English & Film Studies, University of
Alberta)
at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland
Thursday November 6, 2014 at 8 pm
room A 1046 in the Arts & Admin Building
sponsored by the Department of English and the Provost, VP (Academic)
Free and open to all.
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
Broadcast
media
The Nature of Inspiration, a
documentary film by 291 Film Company directed by Ian Toews, features
interviews with David Alexander, Dempsey Bob, Edward Burtynsky, John
Chalke, Marlene Creates, Aganetha Dyck, Takao Tanabe, Peter von
Tiesenhausen, and Robert Wiens, who discuss their work and its
relationship to the environment. (45 min, 2012).
Broadcast premier on August 4, 2012 at 6 pm ET, and August 6, 2012 at 8
pm ET
on the CBC Documentary Channel.
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
"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
–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
–portfolio in KATALOG–Journal
of Photography & Video, issue
no. 25.3,
Museet for Fotokunst
Brandts, Odense, Denmark, 2013, p.46-49
–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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