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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.
Awards
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.
Exhibitions
Vernal
Pool: A participatory art project about place + precipitation
by Karen Abel with Jessica Marion Barr,
part of Grow Op: Exploring Landscape
+ Place
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
April 24-27, 2014
Artists' Walks
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario
guest curated by Earl Miller
January 17-March 16, 2014
Changing Tides: Contemporary Art of
Newfoundland and Labrador
guest curated by Patricia Grattan
McMichael Canadian Art Collection,
Kleinburg, Ontario
January 25-June 1, 2014
The
Walking Encyclopaedia
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK
February 7-March 8, 2014
Presentations
Writing
East: Creative Writing in Atlantic Canada,
creative writing conference at Memorial University, St. John's,
Newfoundland
May 16, 2014
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.
Walking
Artists Network, Institute for Performing Arts Development,
University of East London, UK.
appointed to the first Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE) for
the Town of Portugal
Cove-St. Philips, Newfoundland, 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
"Garden poem," by Tara Bradbury,
The Telegram, St. John's, July
15, 2011
"Into the Woods and Out of the Gallery," by Marlene Creates, The Osprey, journal of Nature
Newfoundland & Labrador, vol 42 no 4, Fall 2011, p. 5-7
Recent Publications
–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
–Liz Wells. Land Matters: Landscape
Photography,
Culture and Identity,
I B Tauris, London (UK), 2011
–Patricia Grattan. City Seen:
Artists’ Views of St. John’s, 1785-2010, Winter Place Projects,
St. John's, 2011
–James Opp and John C. Walsh, ed. Placing
Memory and Remembering Place in Canada, UBC Press,
Vancouver,
2010
–Ursula A. Kelly and Elizabeth Yeoman, ed., Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture,
Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Institute
of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
St. John's, 2010
–Sue Sinclair, A Place to Lay Your
Head, Essay on Tim Lilburn and Marlene Creates, Arc Poetry
Annual 2011,
Ottawa
Interview
"Impermanence
and Temporality,"
Marlene Creates interviewed by Leah Oates,
NY
Arts Magazine, November 2008
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