A Virtual Walk
of
The Boreal Poetry Garden Click on the
image above to start.
The artist
gratefully acknowledges her
long-standing gratitude to The
Canada Council for the Arts and
Arts NL (formerly the
Newfoundland & Labrador Arts
Council).
"Underlying all my work has been
an interest in place—not
as a geographical location but as
a process that
involves memory, multiple
narratives, ecology, language, and
both scientific and vernacular
knowledge."
—Marlene
Creates
Key words
artist's garden
art and mapping
boreal forest poetry
Boreal Poetry Garden
eco-aesthetics, eco-art
eco-phenomenology
eco-poetry
embodied ecology
environmental art
environmental poetry
geoaesthetics
land-based art
landscape and poetry
memory mapping, alternative
mapping,
participatory
mapping, counter
mapping
Newfoundland artist
Newfoundland dialect
Newfoundland poetry
phenomenology and art
phenomenology and poetry
photo-landworks
photo-installations
place-based poetry
place-based performance art
poetry art garden
poetry garden walks
poetry walks
site-specific poetry
site-specific performance art
video-poetry, video-poems
walking artist
walking poet
Land
acknowledgement
In acknowledgement of those who
were here before me, I am grateful
to live and work in the unceded
ancestral homeland of the Beothuk,
Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of the
province of Newfoundland and
Labrador. Previous to European
settlement, the provincial
territory had been inhabited for
over 8 thousand years by a
succession of people who have been
called the Maritime Archaic
Indians, the Thule, the Groswater
and Dorset Eskimos.
The boreal
forest habitat is the home of
moose, caribou, black bear, lynx,
red fox, weasel, mink, pine
marten, hares, wolf, chipmunks,
shrews, mice, beaver, otter,
muskrat, coyote, bats, voles,
squirrels, and numerous species of
birds.
What
Is Left, group
exhibition, Paul Petro Contemporary
Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition
in the Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival
May 13–June 11, 2022.
In conjunction with the exhibition
at Comox Valley Art Gallery: Marlene Creates: An Interest in
Place
Artist Residency, McLoughlin
Gardens, Merville, BC
June 4–26, 2022. Public
events
Bonavista
Biennale
group exhibition, The
Tonic of Wildness, Site
#26, the Lester-Garland House,
Trinity, Newfoundland
August 14–September 12, 2021.
Bewegter
Wind: Change?!, 10th
International Moving Wind Art
Festival, Windkunst und Landschaft
und interkultureller Kommunikation /
Wind Art and Landscape and
Intercultural Communication,
Northern Hesse, Germany
August 15–29, 2021.
Tara
Bryan
– A Celebration,
group exhibition, Christina Parker
Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland
November 12–December 4, 2021.
Events "A Devil's Blanket" composed by
Duane Andrews—based on Marlene
Creates's photographic series, A
Newfoundland Treasury of Terms
for Ice and Snow.
premiere performance by the
Harbourlight Piano Quartet,
First Light Centre for Performance
& Creativity (at Cochrane Street
United Church), St. John's,
Newfoundland
November 25, 2021 at 8 pm.
Recipient of the Mary
MacDonald Award for Excellence
in Visual Arts (EVAs) from
VANL-CARFAC (Visual Artists
Newfoundland and Labrador), which
"thanks an individual or
organization whose efforts have
helped to sustain and build the
visual arts sector," presented June
14, 2019.
Recent books and publications Susan Gibson
Garvey, Andrea Kunard, Robert
Macfarlane, Don McKay, and Joan M.
Schwartz. Marlene
Creates:
Places, Paths, and Pauses,
Goose Lane Editions and the
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, 2017.
also available in a French edition:
Marlene
Creates
: Lieux, sentiers et pauses
Marlene Creates. "Tuning and Being
Tuned By a Patch of Boreal Forest:
Works from The Boreal Poetry Garden,
Newfoundland, Canada." In Trees
in Literatures and the Arts:
HumanArboreal Perspectives in
the Anthropocene,
Carmen Concilio and Daniela
Fargione, eds. Lexington
Books,
The Rowman & Littlefield
Publishing Group, Ecocritical Theory
and Practices series, Lanham,
Maryland, USA, 2021.
