MARLENE CREATES
Born in Montreal, 1952 /
Née à Montréal en 1952.
EDUCATION / ÉTUDES
Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario, Bachelor of Art Education
(Hons.), 1970-74
Memorial
University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, English 4911, Advanced
Creative Writing in Poetry, 2006
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Biology 3610,
Boreal Ecology (audited), 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS
INDIVIDUELLES
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses / Marlene
Creates : Lieux, sentiers, et pauses, a touring
retrospective:
2017 Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Video tour of the
exhibition by Jon Pedersen:
https://vimeo.com/252866964
2018
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Confederation Centre Art Gallery,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2019 Carleton
University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland.
What
Came to Light at Blast Hole Pond River, Newfoundland
2017
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival.
To the Blast Hole Pond River
2017 Fogo
Island Gallery, Joe Batt's Arm, Newfoundland.
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
2018
Canadian Language Museum, Glendon Gallery, Glendon College,
Toronto
2015 Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival
Tent Gallery,
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Marlene Creates:
selected works from 30 years, 1982-2012
2013
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival.
Marlene
Creates: Signs of Our Time
2009
McIntosh
Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
2007
Cambridge
Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2006
Tom
Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2005
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2005
Saint
Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Echoes of Grace
2007
A
Space Gallery, Toronto.
2005
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island
2004
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, invitational
exhibition for the 20th anniversary of Eastern Edge.
Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994
2003
Paved
Art + New Media, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2001
University
of New Brunswick Art Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Dwelling and Transience
2001
Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
Orientation
2001
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
Questions about the Place, Nova Scotia 1998
2000
Acadia
University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Language and Land Use, Alberta 1993
2000
Medicine
Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Alberta.
Places of Presence and other works
1999
Watershed
Media Centre, Bristol, England.
Intersections: Places, General Regulations, and Memories,
Mount Saint Vincent,
Halifax 1998
1998
installed
on the grounds of Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax,
a project of MSVU Art
Gallery for the Mount's 125th anniversary.
Limites municipales, Québec 1997
1997
Vu,
Québec, Québec, for Trois fois Trois Paysages.
The Colour of My Voice, the Colour of the Land,
Newfoundland 1996 and Selected Works
1997
McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994
1998
Mount
Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997
Art
Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1996
Thunder
Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1996
Timmins Museum, Timmins, Ontario
1996
Emma
Ciotti Gallery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
1995
Collins
Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, for Fotofeis
International
Festival of Photography
1995
Eastern Edge Rogue Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Marlene Creates: Narratives of Place 1988-1994 / Contes
mémographiques 1988-1994
1996
Stewart
Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec.
Persistance de la géographie
1995
La
Chambre blanche, Québec, Québec.
Marlene
Creates: Landworks 1979-1991
1993
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and
tour:
1993 Carleton University Art
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontar
1993
Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1994
Confederation
Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1994
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1995
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Language
and Land Use, Alberta 1993
1993
Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, and tour:
1995
Cherry
Coulee Christian Academy, Bow Island, Alberta
1995
Medicine Hat Community College, Alberta.
Places of Presence: Newfoundland kin and ancestral land,
Newfoundland 1989-1991
1994
Southern
Newfoundland Seamen’s Museum, Grand Bank, Newfoundland
1994
Mary March Regional Museum (renamed Demasduit Regional Museum
in 2022), Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland
1993
Gallery
44, Toronto, Ontario.
Marlene Creates
1993
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, invitational exhibition for the
20th anniversary of SAW Gallery.
A River, an Island, a
City: the Persistence of Geography, Montreal 1992 /
1992
Sun
Life Building, Montreal, Quebec.
The
Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories,
Labrador 1988
1991
Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario
1991
Vik Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, for The Works Festival
1991
Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1990
Ufundi
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1990
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1989
14th
Labrador Creative Arts Festival, Happy Valley-Goose Bay,
Labrador
1989
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland
1989
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories
1987
Gallery
101, Ottawa, Ontario.
Landworks 1979-1985
1987
Northern
Life Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Fort Smith, NWT.
Marlene Creates (Art Gallery of Ontario, Extension
Services)
1986
White
Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
1984
Artcite,
Windsor, Ontario
1983
National
Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1982
Confederation
College, Kenora, Ontario.
Landworks: Baffin Island 1985
1986
Labrador
Institute of Northern Studies, Happy Valley-Goose Bay,
Labrador.
Landworks: Newfoundland 1982
1986
Arts
and Culture Centres, Newfoundland, provincial tour.
Places, Paths, Memories
1986
Stewart
Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec.
Des lieux, des sentiers, des souvenirs
1985
Vu,
Québec, Québec.
A Pothole and a Petroglyph, Vancouver Island 1984
1985
Avenue
Bookshop, Ottawa, Ontario.
Paper, Stones and Water
1984-88
Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography touring exhibition:
The
Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
National
Film Board of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Centre
d’exposition de St-Hyacinthe, Québec
Temiskaming
Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
Photo
Union Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
W.B.
Lewis Library, Deep River, Ontario
Bibliothèque
de Brossard, Brossard, Québec
Musée
Minéralogique et d’Histoire Minière, Asbestos, Québec
Edmonton
Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta.
Paper and Place
1983
Dunlop
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1983
Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Pierres et Papier
1983
L’Imagier
centre d’exposition, Aylmer, Québec.
On Site
1982
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Paper, Stones and Water: Ireland 1981
1981
Algonquin
College Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Paper, Stones and Water
1981
Art
and Research Exchange, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1981
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
1981
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
1980
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Two Stories to Every Side
1979
Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick
1978
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
LIVE-ART EVENTS / PERFORMANCES
A
Devil's Blanket
2021 composed by Duane Andrews based on Marlene
Creates's A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and
Snow,
premiere
performance by the Harbourlight Quartet (Nancy Case-Oates,
violin; Mado Christie, piano;
Amy Collyer-Holmes, cello; Kate Read, viola), First Light Centre for Performance & Creativity, St. John's.
2022
Sound Symposium XX, performed by the Harbourlight Quartet,
D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University, St. John's.
The Boreal Poetry Garden, in situ performances:
2019 Rambles and Mammals: Feet
Following Paws and Hooves with collaborators Rita
Anderson, cognitive science about local
wildlife; Jack Eastwood, creative writing
and shadow puppets; and Don McKay, poetry and moose horn.
Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Department of English, Here and Away: A Non-fiction Workshop on Writing
About Place.
2018 Meandering
with the Blast Hole Pond River with collaborators
Katie Baggs, original songs about water; Denise Hennebury,
environmental interpretation of the river
ecosystem; Don McKay, a new river poem; Anna Swanson, poems
about
wild swimming; and Liz Zetlin, films about
water.
2017 Fire
| Light with
collaborators Kjell Andersson, accordion; Carissa Brown, the
ecology of fire and light in the boreal forest;
Don McKay, poetry and acting principal
moose horn; and Aaron McKim, fire juggling, swallowing, and
throwing.
2016 Breezes,
Breath,
and Bellows with Christine Carter, clarinet and moose
horn; Florian Hoefner, accordion; and Don McKay, poetry and
moose horn.
St.
Bonaventure's College, St. John's, Grade 12 English class.
2015 Earth as planet; earth as soil
with poet Don McKay, mycologist Faye Murrin, and botanist
Peter Scott,
in conjunction with the UN International
Year of Soils.
2014 Sound Symposium XVII, Boreal Breaths and Steps with
Nicola
Hawkins, dance; Don McKay, poetry; and Louise Moyes, dance.
Festival of New Dance, Boreal
Breaths and Steps part 2 with Susanna Hood, dance,
and Scott Thomson, trombone.
‘open mic’ event at The
Boreal Poetry Garden in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians
for Change.
2013 Musicians
in
Concert with The Boreal Poetry Garden with Rob Power,
percussion; Rozalind MacPhail, flute; & Ilia Nicoll,
viola.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of English, Writing With Pictures.
‘open
mic’ event at The Boreal
Poetry Garden in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians
for Change.
2012 The
Garden, The Field, The Boreal & Its Understory with
conservation biologist Luise Hermanutz and guest poet Liz
Zetlin.
Birds and Beasts and Other
Creatures with cognitive and behavioral ecologist
Bill Montevecchi and guest poet Monica Kidd.
Tuff Love: Ancient Volcanic Rock
on the Northeast Avalon with geologist Paul Dean and
guest poet Don McKay.
Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts, Annual General Assembly.
Memorial University Department of Education, Environmental Education Across
the Curriculum.
2011 The UN International Year of Forests
2011 and Canada’s first National Tree Day, with guest poets
Mary Dalton, Tom Dawe,
Danielle Devereaux, and
Don McKay.
2010 The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland
& Labrador.
2009 Eastern Edge Gallery, fund-raising
event.
2008 The League of Canadian Poets, Poetry
Festival and Conference.
2008 Sound Symposium XIV.
INTERNET PROJECT / PROJET
INTERNET
2010 A Virtual Walk of The Boreal Poetry Garden, in collaboration with Elizabeth Zetlin and Jed Baker.
http://marlenecreates.ca/virtualwalk/
VIDEO SCREENINGS / PROJECTIONS
2021
Bewegter Wind:
Change?!, 10th
International Moving Wind Art Festival, Windkunst und
Landschaft und interkultureller
Kommunikation / Wind Art and Landscape and
Intercultural Communication, North Hesse, Germany.
Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto.
Bonavista
Biennale, Salt Fish Plant, Catalina, Newfoundland.
2016 Wessex Society of
Newfoundland, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial
University, St. John’s.
Canadian High Commission, Canada House, London, England.
Schumacher College, Dartington Hall Estate, Totnes, Devon, England, Language, Landscape & the Sublime symposium.
Somerset House,
London, England, Walking
Women symposium.
Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, video exhibition Water, Korean Nature Artists Association-YATOO, Republic of Korea.
rare Charitable Research Reserve, ECO Centre, Cambridge, Ontario.
Boreal Ecology,
Biology 3610, Memorial University, St. John's.
2015 Women Directors'
International Film Festival, New Delhi, India.
Finger Lakes Environmental
Fim Festival, Ithaca College, NY.
Northeast
Modern
Language
Association Annual Convention, Special Event sponsored by
Cultural & Media Studies and
Interdisciplinary Humanities, Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
Resource Centre for the Arts, LSPU Hall, St.
John’s at the book launch for Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland
Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow, Boulder
Publications.
University of Cambridge, Green Knowledge' biennial
conference of the Association
for the Study of Literature and
Environment–UK & Ireland (ASLE–UKI), Cambridge, England.
Voices from the Waters International
Traveling Film Festival, Bangalore, India.
University of Strathclyde, Canadian Literature Reading Group,
English Department, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
University of St
Mark & St John, English and Creative Writing program,
Plymouth, England.
2014 Boreal Ecology,
Biology 3610, Memorial University, St. John’s.
WADE IN, part of Eastern Edge
Gallery's 30th anniversary events, 30/30 Vision.
St. John’s International Women’s Film
Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
ViDEOTExT Festival, Bramberg,
Austria.
Society for Existential and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture at Congress 2014 of the
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Brock
University, St. Catharine’s, Ontario.
2011 Ok.Quoi?! Contemporary
Arts Festival, Video
Drive-In, Sackville, New Brunswick.
2010 Planet in Focus
International Environmental Film & Video Festival, “Green
Market”, Toronto.
2010 St. John’s International
Women’s Film Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
2010 The Voice: VISIBLE VERSE
Videopoetry Festival, Vancouver, BC.
2007
St. John’s International Women’s Film
Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
What Is Left
2022 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto, a Featured Exhibition in the Scotiabank
Photography Festival.
Water-Wise, River Breath:
Reframing design's role with water
2022 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Bonavista Biennale:
The Tonic of Wildness
2021 Lester-Garland House, Trinity,
Newfoundland.
Some Versions of Landscape
2021 Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Tara
Bryan — A Celebration
2021 Christina Parker Gallery, St.
John's.
Canaries in a Coal
Mine
2020 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto.
Next Year’s Country
2020 Remai
Modern,
Saskatoon.
Thought, outside
2020 Western Front, Vancouver.
Governor General's
Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2019
2019 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Future
Possible: Art of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1949 to
Present
2019 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St.
John's.
another Landscape show
2019 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Àdisòkàmagan / Nous
connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We'll all become stories: A
Survey of Art in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region
2018 The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa.
Meditation
2018 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto.
in medias
res / into the middle of things
2018 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Photography in Canada, 1960–2000
/ La photographie au Canada, 1960–2000
2017 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and
touring:
2018 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St.
John’s.
Out of the Bush Garden:
Contemporary Artists from Central-Eastern Canada, Imago
Mundi Canada,
2017 Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo Stefano, Venice, Italy
2018 Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto.
So Lightly Here
2017 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Belonging to a Place: An
Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts
2017 Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto.
Bonavista Biennale: Art
Encounters on the Edge
2017 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects,
Duntara, and the Salt Fish Plant, Catalina, Bonavista
Peninsula, Newfoundland.
The Tremendous
Elusive: Emily Carr and the Canadian Imaginary
2016 Canada House Gallery, London, England.
Landing
2015 Art Gallery of Peterborough,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Nature Present in
conjunction with the Future
of Nature? conference and festival
2015 Rotary Arts Centre, City Hall, Corner
Brook, Newfoundland.
Incidence Report
2015 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
A Mark of Effort,
participatory art project and exhibition
2015 University for the Creative Arts,
Farnham, Surrey, UK
The
Art of Walking
2014 The Museum in the Park, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, UK.
Land Reform(ed) / Le paysage (re)visité
2014 Âjagemô Gallery (Canada Council
for the Arts exhibition space), Ottawa, Ontario.
Changing
Tides: Contemporary Art of Newfoundland and Labrador
2014 McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
Vernal Pool: A participatory art project about place
+ precipitation
by Karen Abel with Jessica Marion Barr, part of Grow Op: Exploring Landscape +
Place
2014 Gladstone Hotel,
Toronto.
Artists’ Walks
2014 Art Gallery of
Peterborough, Ontario.
The Walking
Encyclopaedia
2014 AirSpace Gallery,
Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK.
History Becomes
You
2013 Paul Petro
Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Lost Horizon: Landscape by Other Means
2013 Saint Mary's
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Heart of the Moment: Selections from the
Permanent Collection
2013 Ottawa Art Gallery,
Ottawa.
Spotlight on 40
Years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank
2012 Canada Council Art
Bank, Ottawa, Ontario.
engram (a memory trace)
2011
MacKenzie Art Gallery,
Regina, Saskatchewan.
25
for 25: A celebration of the Provincial Art Bank Program’s
25 years of collecting
2011
Provincial
Seamen’s Museum, Grand Bank, Newfoundland
2012 Mary March
Provincial Museum (renamed Demasduit Regional Museum in 2022),
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland
2012
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Living City: Inclusive,
Sustainable, Creative
2010
Canada Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China.
Provincial Arts and Letters
Exhibition
2010
The Rooms
Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Reflections on
Water
2009
Centre for Contemporary Art and the
Natural World, Haldon Forest Park,
Exeter, Devon, UK
Time After Timeline Members Exhibition
for the 25th anniversary of
Eastern Edge
2009 Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Evidence: The Ottawa City
Project
2008
Ottawa
Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Trace Elements: Selections from The Rooms Provincial Art
Gallery
2008
Rideau
Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
Community Art Exhibition
2008
A1C Gallery, St. John's,
Newfoundland.
A Century of Women and Work
2007
Toronto
City Hall, Toronto, Ontario
2007
Workers
Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2007
Sheraton
Centre, Toronto
2007
St.
Clair Centre for the Arts, Windsor, Ontario
2007
Westin
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
2007
Metro
Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
2008
Royal
York, Toronto
2008
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2009
British Columbia
Government Employees Union conference, Vancouver.
REcollections
2007
The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
A Walk in the Park
2007
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sur la route / On the road
2006
Musée
régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec.
New Acquisitions
2006
Art
Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
Imprints
2005
Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario.
Weathervane
2005
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2005
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2006
Museum
London, London, Ontario
2006
La Galerie d’art de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Montréal, Québec.
Selections from the Permanent Collection, opening
exhibition
2005
The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
2005
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Three Rivers: wild waters, sacred places
2004
Yukon
Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon, and tour:
2005
Robert
McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
2005
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria,
British Columbia
2006
Kelowna
Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2006
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Exhibit A: Photography from Atlantic Canada
2004
Saint
Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and tour:
2005
Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland
2005
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario.
Future Cities
2004
Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Limestone Barrens Project
2004
Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland, and tour:
2004
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2005
Model
Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
2005
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
First View: Recent Acquisitions
2003
Carleton
University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Revealing the Subject
2003
Oakville
Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, and tour:
2003
WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2004
Art
Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
2004
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario
2004
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario.
The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa
2003
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
View Finders: Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting
2003
MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Dualities: Contemporary works from the Permanent Collection
Artists in the Arctic
2003
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Tide Line: Contemporary art from the Atlantic Provinces,
part of the Atlantic Scene Festival
2003
City
Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Atlantic Art, part of the Atlantic Scene Festival
2003
National
Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
A Little Bit of Funk: Recent Western and Contemporary
Acquisitions
2003
Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
2003
St.
John’s City Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
North & South: tradition, invention and intervention in
Labrador
2002
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
An Invested Nature
2002
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
River City
2001
The
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta.
A Hard Place: Observations on Geology in the Permanent
Collection
2001
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
Artists in a Floating World: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art
Exhibition
2000
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
2001
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2001
London Regional Gallery, London, Ontario.
From the Eastern Edge
2000
I-Land
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Year 01
2000
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Zone 6B: Art in the Environment
2000
The
City of Hamilton and the Royal Botanical Gardens, through the
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
“Taking Inspiration from Marlene Creates, Canadian
Photographer”: Exploring ‘Place’
within School
2000
I-Land
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Cultural Cross Currents: ConTexts
2000
MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
In Camera
2000
Tom
Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
Four on the Floor
2000
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Light Proof
2000
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
Love
2000
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Marlene Creates: Questions about the Place, Nova Scotia
1998 &
Richard Holden: Local
Histories
1999
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Land Marks
1999
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Images of Us
1999
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Landshapes: Records of Actions, part of SIGHT/SITE:
Visualizing Earth at the Millennium
1999
Southeast
Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, and tour:
2000
The
von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
2000
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach,
Virginia.
Ville imaginaire, ville identitaire
1998
Salle
Multi de Méduse, Québec, Québec, for colloque organized by
l'Université Laval and Vu.
Landscape and Place; Narrative and Photography
1998
Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
La Face / The Face – In Search of the Emblematic
1998
Dazibao,
Montreal, Quebec.
Métronome
1998
La
Chambre blanche, Québec, Québec.
Les
lieux communs: Culture populaire et art contemporain
1997
Musée
régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
1998
CIAC
– Centre international d'art contemporain, Montréal, Québec.
Contemporary Charts
1997
Devon
House Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
500 Years Later: Contemporary Photography in Newfoundland
& Labrador,
St. John's Photography
Co-Op
1997
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Theatrum Mundi: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition
1997
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
1998
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1998
Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's,
Newfoundland
1999
Canadian
Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1999
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Survey Results Show...
National
Gallery of Canada touring exhibition:
1997
Oakville
Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
1997
The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1998
Rodman
Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
1998
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Contours
1997
Olga
Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Manœuvres: Regional Representation in the Canada Council
Art Bank
1997
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Selected Photographs from the City of Ottawa Collection
1997
Karsh-Masson
Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
The
Labrador Interpretation Centre, North West River, Labrador
1997
inaugural exhibition opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Rethinking the Rural in Contemporary Newfoundland Art
1997
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's,
Newfoundland.
St. John's Photography Co-Op
1996
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Looking Back IV: 1991-1995
1996
Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Swinging the Lead
1996
The Old Leadworks, Bristol, England, for Bristol
96, International Festival of the Sea.
Container 96 – Art Across Oceans
1996
Copenhagen,
Denmark, for Copenhagen 96, Cultural Capital of Europe.
Signatures: Newfoundland Women Artists and Writers
1996
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Afterimages: Representing The Absent Body
1996
School
of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
The Edge of Town, Second International
Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition
1995
Joseloff
Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
Storyland:
Narrative Vision and Social Space
1995
Walter
Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.
Displaced Histories / Histoires déplacées
1995
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa,
Ontario.
Calanais
1995
An
Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and tour:
1995
Galerie du
Faouëdic, Hôtel de Ville, Lorient, Brittany, France, for Festival
Interceltique
de Lorient
1996
Talbot
Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1996
Barrack Street Museum, Dundee, Scotland
1997
Maclaurin
Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
1997
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
Ironworks Gallery, Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge,
Scotland.
Land and Sea: Eight Artists from Newfoundland
1995
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s
(formerly Art Gallery of Memorial University)
1995
The
Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1995
The
Glebe House and Gallery, Churchill, County Donegal, Ireland
1995
Monaghan
County Museum Gallery, Monaghan, Ireland
1996
Model
Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
1996
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland
1996
The Boole Library, University College, Cork, Ireland.
Anti-Slogans
1995
Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England.
Landscapes
and Portraits from City Collections
1994
Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
The
Vocation of Storytelling: rooted in community
1994
Struts Centre, Sackville, New Brunswick.
Home Is Where The Art Is
1994
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and tour:
1994
Galerie
B-312 Émergence, Montréal, Québec
1994
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1995
Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario
1996
Definitely
Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1996
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC.
Anecdotes
and Enigmas: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition
1994
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
1995
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1995
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
1996
Hart
House Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario.
Margins
of Memory
1993
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
Earth,
Air and Water
1993
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Earthscape
1993
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Telling
Tales
1993
White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario.
Possible
Maps
1993
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Michel Campeau et/and Marlene Creates: Photo-sequences
1993
Eastern
Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
New Found Photographers
1993
James Baird Gallery, St. John’s and Toronto.
Pièces d'identités
1993
La Centrale, Montréal, Québec.
In
Tandem: works by Marlene Creates, Har Prakash Khalsa, and
Arlene Stamp
in collaboration with
others
1992
KAAI, Kingston, Ontario.
Impact:
Public Installations by Artists of Atlantic Canada /
Installations
publiques par des artistes du Canada
1992
Moncton,
New Brunswick, through Galerie d’art de l’Université de
Moncton.
Fire
1992
Eastern
Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Environment
1992
The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Rephotographing
the Land
1992
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
No Fishing
1991
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Location
and Displacement
1991
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Wrapture
1990
Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Some
Photographic Elements
1989
Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario.
Maskunow:
A Trail, A Path
1989
Art Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s.
Notions of Environment
1989
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and tour:
1989
Great
George Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1989
Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1989
AKA,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
20th Anniversary Exhibition (Queen’s and St. Lawrence
Fine Arts Programs)
1989
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
Persons
Award Exhibition (for
the
Status of Women)
1988
National
Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
On Landscape
1988
Ufundi
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Transart
1988-
Ottawa-Carleton Transitway and Canada Council Art Bank
project.
Sans
Démarcation
1987
Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, through the Art Gallery of Algoma and
Visual Arts Ontario.
101 at NAC
1987
Niagara
Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Process to 3D
1986
The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario (Art Gallery of
Ontario, Extension Services).
The
Physicality of Landscape: Christo, Paterson Ewen, Marlene
Creates
1985
Artspace,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Traces from the Travels of Marlene Creates and Pat Martin
Bates
1985
Mount
Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ontario Jury Exhibition
1985
Rodman
Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Intervention in the Landscape
1985
Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Polaroid deux
1985
Axe
Néo-7, Hull, Québec.
Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of
the National Film Board
1984-87
national
touring exhibition:
Musée
du Québec, Québec
Art
Gallery of Hamilton
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Winnipeg
Art Gallery
Presentation
House Gallery, North Vancouver
Edmonton
Art Gallery.
Regional Juried Exhibition
1983
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
Photographic Sequences
1983
Art
Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Ontario Jury Exhibition
1982
Rodman
Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Elements: Points of View on Nature / Éléments : points de
vue sur la nature
1981
National
Film Board of Canada, Photo Gallery, Ottawa.
Provincial Cultural Symposium exhibition
1981
Ottawa
City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
Letters to Kobe
1981
Kobe
Port Island Exposition, Kobe, Japan.
Four Ottawa Artists
1978
Artspace,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibitions
1977-79
Algonquin
College Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Artists Who Teach
1977
York
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
HONOURS / DISTINCTIONS
The Order of
Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021
https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2021/exec/0716n08-2/
https://vocm.com/2021/09/01/order-of-nl-investiture-2021/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/order-newfoundland-labrador-2021-1.6161239
video portrait by The Canada Council for the Arts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apC0qVneE8&feature=youtu.be
The Mary MacDonald Award, Excellence in
Visual Arts (EVAs), VANL-CARFAC, 2019
Special Recognition Award, International Film Festival for
Environment, Health, and Culture, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2015
Royal Reel Award, Canada International Film Festival,
Vancouver, 2015
The Grand Jury Award, Yosemite International Film Festival,
2014
The BMW Exhibition Prize, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography
Festival, Toronto, 2013
Government of Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters
Award (Poetry), 2010
The CARFAC National Visual Arts Advocate Award, 2009
The Long Haul Award, Excellence in Visual Arts
(EVAs), VANL-CARFAC, 2009
Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2001
The 1996 Artist of the
Year Award,
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
‘Best of Show’, Regional
Juried Exhibition, Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston, Ontario, 1983
GRANTS / BOURSES
Canada Council for the Arts
Canada/Newfoundland
Agreement on Economic Renewal
Canada/Newfoundland
Cooperation Agreement on Cultural Industries
Canada/Newfoundland
Comprehensive Economic Development Agreement
City of St. John’s
Cultural Economic
Development Program, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council / ArtsNL
VISITING ARTIST lectures,
panels / ARTISTE INVITÉE, conférences
Acadia University Art Gallery,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1992, 2000
Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston, 1981, 2001
AKA, Saskatoon, 1989
Algonquin College Gallery, Ottawa,
1981
ARCCO Conference, Convergence
Strategies & Influences, Congress Centre, Ottawa,
2002
Art and Research Exchange, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 1981
Artcite, Windsor, 1984
art.earth, Dartington Hall Estate,
Totnes, UK
High Water: sharing our
connections to the sea and the tides (online event
via Zoom), 2021
Sentient Performativities: thinking
alongside the human, symposium (via Zoom), 2022
Art Ex: Visual Art in the
Exploits Valley, artists' panel, Gordon Pinsent
Centre for the Arts, Grand Falls-Windors, 2010
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste.
Marie, 1987
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria, 2001
Art Gallery of Newfoundland &
Labrador, St. John’s, 1999, 2001
The City
Lecture Series, 2000
Art Gallery of Peterborough,
Ontario, 1993
Artspace, Peterborough, 1981, 1985
Association of Canadian Clubs:
Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Lethbridge, Lindsay, Medicine Hat,
Moose Jaw, Orillia, Oshawa, 1983-84
Association for Literature,
Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC), plenary speaker
at the biennial conference,
Space + Memory = Place,
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C., 2012
Atlas Obscura, Brooklyn, NY, The Hidden World of
Lichens with Felicity Roberts, in collaboration with
Marlene Creates, Emily Jan, and
Yolanda Wiersma (via Zoom), 2021
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, panel: Retrospective?
The paths we have trodden, the paths we still pursue,
2017
Bishop Feild Elementary School, St. John's, 1998, 1999
Bonavista Biennale, panel: Art & Place, Coaker
Foundation, Port Union, Newfoundland, 2017
Brock University, Department of Fine Arts, St. Catharines,
1985
Brother T. I. Murphy Learning
Resource Centre, Community Youth Arts Program, St. John's,
2003, 2008
Cabot College, Textile
Studies Program, St. John’s, 1994
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge,
Ontario, 2007
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, 1987
Canadian Historical Association
Annual General Meeting at Congress
2011 of the Humanities and Social Sciences, St.
Thomas University,
Fredericton,
panel: Art, Memory, and Place:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the work of Marlene
Creates, 2011
Canadian Museums Association national conference, St.
John's, 2010
panel: The Art and Science of People,
Place and Meaning
Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1995
Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society, St. John’s, 2007
Carleton University Art Gallery,
Ottawa, 1993, 2019
Department of Continuing Studies, 1987
Department of Art History, 1992
La Centrale, Montréal,
1993
Central Junior Secondary School,
Victoria, 2000
Central Newfoundland Visual Arts
Society (CNVAS), Grand Falls-Windsor, 2012
Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, 1983
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon
Forest Park, Exeter, Devon, England, 2009
La Chambre blanche/Musée du Québec,
Québec, Investir un lieu, 1995
College of the North Atlantic,
Visual Arts Department, Stephenville, Newfoundland, 2000
College of the North Atlantic, Textile Studies Program, St.
John's, Artists'
Copyright and Intellectual Property, 2011
Collins Gallery, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995
Commonwealth Foundation, Fellowship
Program, St. John's, 1996
Comox Valley Art Gallery,
Courtenay, British Columbia, 2022
Concordia University,
Montreal
Faculty of Fine Arts,
1992, 2016
Art History
Department, 1995
Photography Programme,
1998
Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Waters Lost, Waters Found
Research Group, 2016
Culture and
Communication course, Loyola College for Diversity and
Sustainability (via Zoom), 2021
Confederation Centre
Art Gallery, Charlottetown, 1992, 1994, 2018
Confederation College, Kenora, 1982
Crafts Council of Newfoundland &
Labrador, A Public Art and Commissions Seminar, 2003
CSARN (Canadian Senior Artists'
Resource Network) annual conference, Maintaining Creativity V,
panelist
on "Isolation, Disruption, and the Healing Benefit of the
Arts", 2020
Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Department of English, Spoken
Word, Storytelling, and Literary Performance
course, 2018
Dazibao, Montréal, 1993
Deveron Arts, Huntly, Scotland, 2015
Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas,
Ontario, 1983
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, 1983
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s,
1999
CARFAC
Self-management seminar for Visual Artists, 1994
Manufacturing a Newfoundland Culture:
the Arts and the Bottom Line, 1996
Container 96 – Art Across Oceans,
Copenhagen, 1996
The Salon
Féministe, 2002
Women with a Cause,
2008
Art=Work, A Public Forum Regarding Arts Workers
in Newfoundland & Labrador, 2013
Conundrums, Confessions,
Contradictions, and Concerns: Working as Environmental
Artists in 2019,
presented by Eastern Edge at Murray's Garden
Centre, Portugal Cove, as part of the Hold Fast Festival,
2019
Edmonton
Art Gallery, 1993, 2001
Elemental Festival on
Walking, 4elements
Living Arts, Kagawong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, 2016
Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli,
Québec, 1997
Fogo Island Gallery, Joe Batt's Arm,
Newfoundland, Marlene
Creates in Conversation with Nicolaus Schafhausen,
2017
Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, 1991
Full Tilt Creative Centre, McIvers,
Newfoundland, Polyglot
Plot colloquium, 2012
Gallery 44, Toronto, 1993
Gallery 101, Ottawa, 1987
Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, 1991
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow,
Scotland, 1994
Grant MacEwan Community College,
Fine Art Program, Edmonton, 1993
Grenfell Art Gallery, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, 2021
Hartford Art School, University of
Hartford, Connecticut, 1995
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland
and Labrador, Intangible Cultural Heritage Program,
Drawing Memory Maps workshops
at the Arts & Culture Centre, St. John’s, 2012
and at
Fishing for Folklore: An
Introduction to Intangible Cultural Heritage, Petty
Harbour Community Centre, 2014
Inuit Art
Foundation, Nain, Labrador, 1991
Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, 2013
Labrador East Integrated School Board, Happy Valley-Goose
Bay, Labrador, 1989
League of Canadian Poets Annual
Conference, St. John’s, panel: The Moving Image of
Poetry, 2008
The Library & Gallery,
Cambridge, Ontario, 1994
The Light Symposium, organized by the Philosophy &
English Departments, Memorial University, and
the Art Gallery of
Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s, 2002
Los Parronales Writers' Retreat, El
Noviciado, Chile, Re-seeing
Things, 2012
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina,
panel: The Relevance of Regionalism, 1999
Mary March Regional Museum (renamed
Demasduit Regional Museum in 2022), Grand Falls-Windsor,
Newfoundland, 1994
Marystown Central High School,
Marystown, Newfoundland, 1989
McIntosh Gallery, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2009
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton,
panel: Zone 6B: Art in the Environment, 2000
McMaster University, Hamilton, Art
Department, 1983, 2016
McMichael Canadian Art Collection,
Kleinburg, Ontario, 1997
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery,
Alberta, 2000
Memorial University, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland, 1982
Memorial
University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1982,
1987, 1990, 1993
Extension Arts, St.
John’s, 1986
Department of Humanities, School of
Graduate Studies, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001
Faculty of Education,
Between a Rock and a Great Place, Learning Vacation,
2002
Faculty of
Education, conference: Despite
This Loss: Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland
and Labrador, 2006
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 2003
Monaghan County Museum Gallery,
Monaghan, Ireland, 1995
Mount Saint Vincent University Art
Gallery, Halifax, 1985, 1998
Musée régional de Rimouski,
Rimouski, Québec, 1997
National Exhibition Centre, Thunder
Bay, 1983
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
1987, 1993, 1999
Newfoundland & Labrador Social
Studies Council, conference: Celebrating Centuries
of Culture;
panel: Whither
Newfoundland Culture?, 1997
North Atlantic Forum, Culture, Place & Identity
at the Heart of Regional Development, international
conference, St. John’s, 2011
panel: Nature as Muse
Northeast Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, Toronto, 2015
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University,
Halifax, 1992, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2018
panel: Why
Landscape?: Site, Image and Language, 1994
Ottawa Women’s Credit Union, Arts
Committee, 1987
Paradise Elementary School,
Paradise, Newfoundland, 1988
Photo Union Gallery, Hamilton, 1985
Presentation House Gallery, North
Vancouver, 1990
Queen’s University, Art Department,
Kingston
Geography Department, Kingston, 2001
rare Charitable
Research Reserve ECO Centre, Cambridge, Ontario, 2016
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John's, conference: Shifting Practice;
panel: Dissemination, 2002
Robert Gordon University, Gray’s
School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2015
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Annual General Assembly, St.
John's, panel: Genius
Loci: Spirit of Place, 2012
St. Bonaventure’s College, Grade 12
English class, St. John’s, 2016
St. John's Native Friendship Centre Association, Business
of the Arts Conference, 1999
St. Lawrence Elementary School,
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, 1989
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery,
Halifax, 2005
panel: Artist/Writer?,
1992
St. Thomas University, Critical
Theory in Contemporary Visual Art course, Fine Arts
Department, Fredericton, 2017
Santiago
Writers, Santiago, Chile, Back
to the Things Themselves, 2012
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, 1993
Schumacher College, Dartington Hall
Estate, Totnes, Devon, England, Language, Landscape & the Sublime
symposium, 2016
Sheridan College, Art Department,
Oakville, 1983
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College,
Department of Visual Arts, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1989,
1990, 1996, 2000, 2006
Society for Existential and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), at Congress 2014 of the
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Brock University, St.
Catharine’s, Ontario, panel on the theme of weather for Back To The Things Themselves!,
2014
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 1993
Southern Newfoundland Seamen’s
Museum, Grand Bank, 1994
State University
of New York (SUNY), Department of Art, Buffalo, NY (via
Zoom), 2022
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe
Claire, Quebec, 1986, 1996
Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, 2016
Struts Centre/Owens Art Gallery,
Sackville, New Brunswick, 1994
Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre,
Ottawa, 1983
The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland,
2005, 2020
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,
Owen Sound, 2004, 2006
Words Aloud Festival,
2008
Université d’Ottawa, Département des
Arts Visuels
Université du Québec à Hull et la
Maison du Citoyen, Hull, colloque: Art en Situation,
1988
Université du Québec à Montréal,
Département d’arts plastiques, Montréal, 1992
Universities Art
Association of Canada, Queen’s University, Kingston, panel:
Nature and Art/Practice and Theory, 1991
University of British Columbia
Okanagan, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Kelowna,
BC, 2013
University
of Chichester, Departments of Fine Art and English &
Creative Writing, Chichester, England, 2016
University
of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, ‘Art, Space +
Nature’ Masters program, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
University of Edinburgh, Centre of Canadian Studies, School
of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
University of Glasgow, EcoCultures: Glasgow’s
Festival of Environmental Research, Policy and Practice,
participated on the panel: Cross-discipline engagement and the artist in
society, 2015
University of Glasgow, School of
Culture and Creative Arts, Theatre Studies Unit, Glasgow,
Scotland, 2015
University of Kent, School of Arts and Image Studies,
Canterbury, England, 1996
University of Lethbridge, Art
Department, 1992, 2001
University
of New Brunswick, Department of English & Creative
Writing, Fredericton, 2017
University of Ottawa, Department of Visual Arts, 2013
University of Oxford, School of
Geography and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England, 1996
University
of Plymouth, School of Art and Media, Plymouth, England,
2008
Fine Art and
Photography Department, Land/Water and the Visual Arts
research group, 2015
University of Reading, Department of
Film, Theatre and Television, England,
research seminar for "Atmospheric Forces" (via Zoom), 2021
University of Regina, Department of
Visual Arts, 1996
University of St Andrews, Institute for Theology,
Imagination and the Arts, St Andrews, Scotland, 2015
University of St Mark & St John, English
and Creative Writing program, Plymouth, England, 2015
University of Siena, Centro
Siena-Toronto, Siena, Italy, 2010
University of Strathclyde, Canadian Literature Reading
Group, English Department, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, 2015
University of Sussex, Centre for
Life History Research, Brighton, England, 2009
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, through
the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2003
University of Toronto, Art
Department, graduate seminar on Ecological Art in Canada since the 1960s,
2011
University of Turin, Master in North
American Studies, Faculty of Literature and Foreign
Languages, Turin, Italy, 2010
University of Turin, keynote speaker at the conference Trees In/And/Around Literature
in the Anthropocene, Turin,
Italy (via Skype), 2019
University of Venice, Scuola di
Dottorato in Lingue, Culture e Società, Venice, Italy, 2010
University of Victoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2001
University of the West of England,
Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, Bristol, England,
keynote presenter at
the symposium: Art, Rural
Life and Environmental Concern, 2008
Visual Artists Newfoundland &
Labrador, St. John’s, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2004
Vu, Québec, 1985, 1997
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff,
Alberta, 1995
Wasan Island, Ontario, The
Wasan Dialogues on Remaking Canada's Places and Creative
Place Making, 2013
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol,
England, 1999
Wessex Society of Newfoundland,
Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University, St.
John’s, 2006, 2016
White Water Gallery, North Bay,
1986, 1993
Wilfred Laurier University,
Waterloo, 1994
Women in Photography Fifth National
Conference, Simmons College, Boston, panel: The Landscape in Question,
1997
Yukon Arts Centre Public Art
Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon, 2004
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE and
COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS /
RÉSIDENCES D'ARTISTES et PROJETS COMMUNAUTAIRES
McLoughlin Gardens,
Merville, Vancouver Island, through Comox Valley Art Gallery,
Courtenay, British Columbia, 2022
Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, 2017
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2017
Eastern Comma Artist-in-Residence, rare Charitable Research Reserve, Cambridge,
Ontario, September-October 2016
Elemental Festival on Walking, 4elements Living
Arts, Kagawong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, 2016
Liminus Festival, Gros Morne Summer Music, Woody
Point and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 2015
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Faculty of Creative
and Critical Studies, Kelowna, BC, 2013
Award Ribbons for Woodhaven Nature
Conservancy Expansion
W(here) Festival, Pictou
County,
Nova Scotia, Award Ribbons for Places
in Pictou County, 2012
http://wherefestival.wordpress.com/award-ribbons-for-places/
Three
Rivers Journey,
Yukon (part of the Boreal Rendezvous), through the Canadian
Parks and Wilderness Society, 2003
Est-Nord-Est,
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Les lieux communs: Culture
populaire et art contemporain, 1997
McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, in conjunction with the
exhibition The Colour of My Voice,
the Colour of the Land, Newfoundland 1996
and Selected Works, 1997
Boréal Multimédia, Lac
Nemiskachi, Québec, La Tête des Eaux, 1995
Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge, in conjunction with Language and Land
Use, Alberta 1993
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,
in conjunction with the exhibition Sans Démarcation, 1987
Brock University, Ste.
Catharines, Ontario, in conjunction with the exhibition Intervention
in the Landscape, 1985
Art Gallery of Memorial
University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, in conjunction with the
exhibition On Site, 1982
TEACHING and
related activities / ENSEIGNEMENT et autres travaux
Languages, Literatures, and Modern Cultures, in
cooperation with Department of Medical Sciences,
2019
Mentor for the Environment/Land-based Artist Residency
through Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Mapping and
Memories: Archival Maps and Memory Mapping the Past,
workshop, The Rooms, St. John’s.
2018
Beachy Cove Elementary School, Portugal Cove-St.
Philip’s, Newfoundland, ArtsSmarts
project.
Newfoundland Writers'
Guild, St. John's, Memory
mapping and Place workshop.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New
Brunswick, workshops.
2016
University of Chichester, Departments of Fine Art and English
& Creative Writing, Chichester, England, workshop.
Elemental
Festival on Walking,
4elements Living Arts, Kagawong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario,
workshops.
rare Charitable Research
Reserve ECO Centre, Cambridge, Ontario,
workshop.
2015
Edinburgh College of
Art, University of Edinburgh, invited Academic Visitor for the
Art, Space + Nature MFA
program,
fall term.
2015
Robert Gordon
University, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland,
workshop.
2012-13
Holy Trinity Elementary, Torbay, ArtsSmarts projects.
2012 Central Newfoundland Visual
Arts Society (CNVAS), Grand Falls-Windsor, workshop.
2011
Beachy Cove Elementary
School, Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s; Virginia Park Elementary,
St. John's;
St. Mary’s Elementary,
St. John’s; Holy Trinity Elementary, Torbay; and Topsail
Elementary, ArtsSmarts
projects.
2010
Department of Education, Government of Newfoundland &
Labrador, ArtsWork workshops
for teachers in Cow Head,
Lewisporte, North West
River, Trinity, St. John’s, Mainland/La Grand’Terre, NL.
2010
VANL-CARFAC, professional development workshops for artists in
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Corner Brook,
Gander, St. John’s, and
Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.
2005-10 Holy Trinity Elementary
School, Torbay, Newfoundland, ArtsSmarts projects.
2008
Holy Name of Mary
Academy, Lawn, Newfoundland, ArtsSmarts projects.
2004
Stella
Maris Academy, Trepassey; Baltimore School Complex, Ferryland;
Mobile Central High School, Mobile;
St.
Kevin’s Junior High, Goulds; Prince of Wales Collegiate, St.
John’s, Schools-in-Community:
Student Perspectives
from Newfoundland
& Labrador, art project in conjunction with
the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education (OISE), Toronto.
2002
Mount
Saint Vincent University, Department of Education, Extension
course, St. John's.
2001
Mary
Queen of Peace School, St. John’s, Artists-in-the-Schools
Program.
1998
Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design, Photography Department,
Halifax.
Mount
Saint Vincent University, Department of Education, Extension
course, St. John's.
1991
Program
Director of Summer Residency, Art, Environment, and Land
Use / Art, environnement et territoire,
Photography
Program, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.
1987-88
Community
Arts Educator, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland.
1982-85
University
of Ottawa, Visual Arts Department.
1975-82
Algonquin
College, Visual Arts Department, Ottawa.
2022
Member of the Arts,
Wellness & Heritage (AWH) Committee for the Portugal
Cove-St. Philip's Chamber of Commerce
2020
Co-founding member
of the Portugal Cove-St. Philip's Arts Association,
Newfoundland
2014-2015 Co-founding member of the Advisory Committee
on the Environment (ACE) for the Town of Portugal Cove-
St. Philip's, Newfoundland
2012 PLaCE
(Place Location Context and Environment) International
Research Centre (England), associate member
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/place/
2010-2012 Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts, head of the steering committee for
the Annual General Assembly, St. John's
2004-2008 VANL-CARFAC (Visual Artists Newfoundland
& Labrador, provincial affiliate of CARFAC),
Co-chair & Board member
1997-2007 Arts
and Letters Committee, Government of Newfoundland &
Labrador
2005
Visual
Arts Special Advisory Committee, Canada Council for the Arts,
Ottawa
2003-05
Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts, member of the national council
2000-04
The
Canada Council Art Bank Advisory Committee
1995
The
Canada Council Art Bank, Transition Advisory Committee
1986-94
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, founding member and member of the
Board of Directors
1979
ANNPAC
(Association of National Non-Profit Artists Centres), Ontario
Representative
Workers Arts & Heritage
Centre, Hamilton, and the Ontario Federation of Labour, A
Century of Women and Work, 2007
Edmonton Art Gallery, for
the exhibition River City, 2001
Health Care Corporation of
St. John’s, Echoes of Grace for the Women’s Health
Centre, Health Sciences Centre,
St.
John's, 2001
Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria, Dwelling and Transience, Greater Victoria 2000,
through the Canada Council for
the
Arts Millennium Fund, 2000
Art Gallery of Hamilton,
for the exhibition Zone 6B: Art in the Environment,
2000
Gallery 101, Ottawa, for
the gallery’s 20th anniversary publication, Bearings:
Four Photographic Essays, 2000
Mount Saint Vincent
University Art Gallery, for the university's 125th
anniversary, 1998
Sun Life Assurance Company
of Canada, for the City of Montreal’s 350th
anniversary, 1992
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS / COLLECTIONS PUBLIQUES
Agnes Etherington Art
Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
Air Canada, Montreal
Art Gallery of Algoma,
Sault Ste. Marie
Art Gallery of Alberta,
Edmonton
Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton
Canada Council Art Bank,
Ottawa
Canadian Museum of
Civilization, Hull
Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Carleton University Art
Gallery, Ottawa
City of Montreal
City of Ottawa
Dalhousie University Art
Gallery, Halifax
Department of Foreign
Affairs, Government of Canada
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Esplanade Arts and Heritage
Centre, Medicine Hat
Government of Newfoundland
& Labrador, Provincial Art Bank
Health Care Corporation of
St. John’s
MacKenzie Art Gallery,
Regina
Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. John’s
Mount Saint Vincent
University Art Gallery, Halifax
National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
Oakville Galleries,
Oakville
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Remai Modern, Saskatoon
Saint Mary's University Art
Gallery, Halifax
Stewart Hall Art Gallery,
Pointe Claire
The Rooms Provincial Art
Gallery, St. John’s
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound
Yukon Arts Centre Gallery,
Whitehorse
CURATING and related activities
/ TRAVAUX DIVERS COMME CONSERVATRICE
1990-92
Co-ordinator,
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1990
Small Works: In Search of a Non-Toxic Art Practice,
Eastern Edge, St. John’s
1990
Don Wright 1931-1988: A Retrospective
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, and tour: Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery,
Confederation
Centre Art Gallery, Acadia University Art Gallery, Edmonton
Art Gallery, Art Gallery of
Greater
Victoria, Galerie d’art de l’Université de Moncton, Nickle
Arts Museum, National Gallery of Canada
1988
City
and
Sea, installations by 15 Newfoundland artists in the
former Newfoundland Savings Bank, St. John’s
1987
Memory/Souvenir, Festival of the Arts exhibition by 17
Ottawa-area artists in the former Courthouse, Ottawa
1987
The Diary Exhibition/Journaux intimes, diaristic
artworks by 16 Canadian artists
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, and tour: Art
Gallery of York University, Galerie d’art de
l’Université
de Moncton, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Artspace, Art Gallery of
Algoma, Robert McLaughlin Gallery,
Stewart
Hall Art Gallery, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
1986
New Found Artists Land at Artspace/ ... at SAW Gallery/ ...
at KAAI,
Art Gallery of Memorial
University, and tour
1986
Works from the Eastern Edge, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton,
New Brunswick
1985-86
Curatorial
Intern, Art Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s,
Newfoundland
1985
Co-curator,
Art in situ, Festival of the Arts exhibition by 14
Ottawa-area artists
in
the former Fire Station No.3, Ottawa
1979-82
Curator
of the Performance Program and Assistant Director, SAW
Gallery, Ottawa
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