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A
Virtual Walk of
The Boreal Poetry Garden
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on the image above to start.
The artist gratefully
acknowledges her
long-standing gratitude to The Canada Council for the Arts and the
Newfoundland
& Labrador Arts Council.
Key words
artist's garden
art and mapping
ciné-poetry
eco-art
eco-phenomenology
eco-poetry
environmental art
environmental poetry
geoaesthetics
land art
landscape and poetry
memory maps
Newfoundland artist
Newfoundland dialect
Newfoundland poetry
phenomenology and art
phenomenology and poetry
place-based poetry
place-based performance art
poetry art garden
poetry garden walk
poetry walks
site-specific poetry
site-specific performance art
video-poetry
walking artist
walking poet
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Gallery
Representation
Paul
Petro
Contemporary Art
Toronto
News
Recipient of a 2019
Governor General's Award
in Visual and Media Arts
for "Lifetime Artistic Achievement,"
announced February 13, 2019.
- video
portrait by The Canada Council for the Arts.
- Carolyn Stokes, Here & Now CBC TV news, St.
John's, March 7, 2019.
- Sam McNeish, The Telegram, St. John's, March
9, 2019.
- CBC News, Q&A
with Marlene Creates, March 10, 2019.
Open
Call for Environment/ Land-based Mentored Artist Residency with
Marlene Creates
through Eastern Edge Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland.
application deadline: April 18, 2019.
Exhibitions
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses
a touring retrospective exhibition
co-curated by
Susan Gibson Garvey and Andrea Kunard (organized by the Beaverbrook Art
Gallery in partnership with Dalhousie
Art Gallery)
With a major
publication that includes
essays by Susan Gibson
Garvey, Andrea Kunard, Robert
Macfarlane, and Joan
M. Schwartz, and an ekphrastic poem by Don McKay, co-published by Goose
Lane Editions and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
Tour venues:
1. Beaverbrook
Art Gallery,
Fredericton, New Brunswick
September 23, 2017–January 21, 2018.
A video tour
of the retrospective exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Jon
Pedersen:
https://vimeo.com/252866964
(18 min. 24 sec.)
2. Dalhousie
Art Gallery,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
February 16–May 6, 2018.
3. Confederation
Centre Art Gallery,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
June 9–September 30, 2018.
4. Carleton
University Art Gallery,
Ottawa, Ontario
May 21–August 25, 2019.
opening reception Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 5:00–7:30 pm.
5. The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland
October 12, 2019–January 19, 2020.
The Governor
General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2019
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
March 29–August 5, 2019
opening reception Thursday March 28, 5:30 pm.
another
Landscape show
group exhibition
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
February 16–July 1, 2019.
Recent
interview
Marlene Creates: Precise Moments in
Particular Spots,
an interview with Caitlin Chiasson for Far Afield
posted October 2, 2018
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
Luciano Benetton, Peggy Gale, and
Francesca Valente. Out of the Bush
Garden: Contemporary Artists from Central-Eastern Canada,
Imago
Mundi, Antiga Edizioni, Crocetta del Montello, Italy, 2017.
Andrea Kunard. Photography in
Canada, 1960-2000 / La photographie au Canada, 1960–2000,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2017.
Victoria Dickenson, Laura Brandon, Naomi Fontaine, Patricia Grattan,
Laurier Lacroix, Lee Maracle, and Gerald McMaster. The Good Lands: Canada Through the Eyes of
Artists, Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, BC, 2017.
Catherine Beaudette and Patricia Grattan. Bonavista Biennale: Art Encounters on the
Edge / Art et conjonctures, 2 Rooms Contemporary Art
Projects, Duntara, Newfoundland, 2017.
Recent
articles and reviews
Sarah
Gittins, "Sarah
Gittins reviews Marlene Creates:
Places, Paths, and Pauses,"
ecoartscotland, posted May 10, 2018.
Ray
Cronin, "Places,
Paths, and Pauses: The Work of Marlene Creates," Halifax Magazine online, April 17,
2018
Eva Crocker. “12
Years of Growth and Transformation in Marlene Creates’ Boreal Poetry
Garden,” The Overcast online,
St. John's, posted July 18, 2017.
Ray Cronin. “Marlene
Creates’ Natural Art,” Atlantic
Books Today, Halifax, Fall 2017, p.
56.
Leah Sandals. “16
Art Shows to See This Fall,” Canadian
Art online, posted September 21, 2017.
Gil McElroy. “Do No
Harm: Marlene Creates,” Re:Sculpt,
International Sculpture Centre,
Princeton, New Jersey, USA, posted October 25, 2017.
Stephen Dale. “Creates
and Cahén in the Spotlight at the Beaverbrook,” National
Gallery of Canada online magazine, posted November 21, 2017.
Joan Sullivan. “Underlying
all my work has been an interest in place,” The Telegram, St.
John’s, November 25, 2017, B10–11.
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