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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
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.
public events:
—opening
reception, Thursday, March 8, 2018 at
7 pm.
—walking
tour of the exhibition with co-curator Susan Gibson Garvey and
Marlene Creates, Saturday, March 10,
2018 at 2 pm.
3.
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
June 9–September 30, 2018.
4.
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
June–August 2019.
5. The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
St. John's, Newfoundland
October 12, 2019–January 19, 2020.
Photography
in Canada, 1960–2000 /
La photographie au Canada, 1960–2000
group exhibition curated by Andrea Kunard (organized by the Canadian
Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada)
The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland
January 27–April 22, 2018.
A
Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
solo exhibition
Canadian
Language Museum
Glendon Gallery, Glendon College
Toronto, Ontario
February 1–April 19, 2018.
Àdisòkàmagan
/ Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We’ll all become
stories: A Survey of Art in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region
group exhibition
Ottawa Art Gallery,
Ottawa, Ontario
April 28–September 16, 2018.
In Medias Res
group exhibition
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
July 13–August 18, 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.
Rebecca Basciano, Jim Burant, Michelle Gewurtz, Catherine Sinclair, et
al. Àdisòkàmagan
/ Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We’ll all become
stories,
A Survey of Art in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region,
Ottawa
Art Gallery and Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, BC, 2017.
Appointments
& Professional memberships
associate member of PLaCE
(Place Location Context and Environment) International Research Centre,
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
appointed May 25, 2012.
member of the Walking
Artists Network, Institute for Performing Arts Development,
University of East London, UK.
member of the Ecoart Network,
appointed April 2013.
Recent
articles and reviews
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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