A Virtual Walk of
The Boreal Poetry Garden

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News

Gallery Representation
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Toronto

Exhibitions
Lost Horizon: Landscape by Other Means
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery Halifax, Nova Scotia
January 11-March 10, 2013

Heart of the Moment: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Ottawa Art Gallery
January 25 - April 7, 2013
opening Thursday January 24, 2013, 5 p.m.

Marlene Creates: selected works from 30 years, 1982-2012
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen Street West, Toronto
May 3-June 1, 2013
opening Friday May 3, 7-10 p.m.
Featured Exhibition in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

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
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

Presentations and Workshops
Visiting artist talk,
Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia
Thursday March 14, 2013, 7-8 p.m.

Making Memory Maps
workshop with Marlene Creates
through the Intangible Cultural Heritage program, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 1-4 pm
MMAP Gallery
Arts & Culture Centre, St. John's
$20
Pre-registration required:
nicole@heritagefoundation.ca or
call 709-739-1892 ext 6

plenary speaker at Space + Memory = Place, the biennial conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC), UBC Okanagan and Okanagan College, Kelowna and Penticton, British Columbia,
August 7-12, 2012

Broadcast media
Guest Interview with Barbara Deland
VOWR Radio 800 AM, St. John's
Sunday December 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. and
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 8:30 pm

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.

Appointment
May 25, 2012, associate member of PLaCE (Place Location Context and Environment) International Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Recent articles and reviews
"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

"Poetry and Geology: Being Present to the Ancient Earth––Marlene Creates' Boreal Poetry Garden" by Hallelujah Truth,
August 21, 2012

Recent Publications
–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

–Andrea Kunard. "Between Two Points," BlackFlash, vol. 28.2, Saskatoon, winter 2011, p. 20-22

–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

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.

copyright (c) Marlene Creates, 2011