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Marlene Creates
Email: marlene.creates@nf.sympatico.ca
Website: http://www.marlenecreates.ca/ Marlene Creates is an environmental artist and poet who lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Her theoretical and studio research interests include: photography, relational aesthetics, ecology, poetry, and place. Since 2002 her principal artistic venture has been to closely observe and work with the six acres of boreal forest where she lives. Recently, she has been leading visitors on walks along the paths she has been making and reading site-specific poems (in 2008 for Sound Symposium and the League of Canadian Poets Annual Conference). A five-minute documentary video, Night Walk: Boreal Poetry Garden, by poet Liz Zetlin can be viewed at http://owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplayGenContent.aspx?e=6030#zetlin. Since the 1970s her artwork has been in over 250 solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Denmark, and the USA. She has also been the curator of several nationally touring exhibitions, worked in artist-run centres, and taught visual arts at the University of Ottawa, Algonquin College, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her principal publications include The Boreal Poetry Garden (Twelve Bells Press, Coates, UK, 2005), Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994 (Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 1998), Places of Presence: Newfoundland kin and ancestral land, Newfoundland 1989-1991 (Killick Press, St. John's, 1997), and The Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories, Labrador 1988 (Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, 1990, reprinted 1998). She has completed public commissions of photo- and text-based works for the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, and the Ontario Federation of Labour, A Century of Women and Work (2007), the Health Care Corporation of St. John's, Echoes of Grace, a series of panels installed at the Health Sciences Centre, St. John's (2001), Intersections: Places, General Regulations, and Memories, a series of markers installed on the campus of Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery for the university's 125th anniversary (1998), and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada for the City of Montreal’s 350th anniversary (1992). She has been a guest lecturer at over 125 institutions including the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Oxford and many Canadian universities. In 2008 she was the keynote presenter at the symposium "Art, Rural Life and Environmental Concern" at the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England. Her artwork is in numerous public collections including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the National Gallery of Canada. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2001. |