Marlene Creates

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Marlene Creates
Born
Marlene Creates

1952 (age 71–72)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater Queen's University
Known for visual artist, poet
Movement Environmentalism
Awards Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019), Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2021), Doctor of Letters (2024)
Elected Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2001)
Website www.marlenecreates.ca

Marlene Creates ONL RCA (born 1952) is a Canadian artist lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador. [1] Born in Montreal, Quebec, Creates studied visual arts at Queen's University, then lived in Ottawa for twelve years, moving to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1985.

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A major theme of her work is the relationship between human beings and the land; she often photographs subtle traces and marks of human presence in natural environments. [2] Her work has been shown in over 300 exhibitions across the world.

In 2001 Creates, was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, [3] [4] and in 2013 she won CONTACT Photography Festival's BMW Prize for her exhibition Marlene Creates: selected works from 30 years, 1982-2012. The exhibition "gently invites us to think about how we belong to the land, and how we leave our touch upon it." [5] Creates was a 2019 recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. [6] In 2021, she was invested into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, "the highest honour that the Province can bestow" and recognizes "individuals who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in any field of endeavour benefiting, in an outstanding manner, Newfoundland and Labrador and its residents." [7] In 2024, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters (D. Litt.) from Memorial University. [8]

Education

Creates attained her bachelor's in art education at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, attending from 1970 –1974. [9] She traveled to Venice, Italy in 1973 as part of the university's Art and Architecture Study. [9] In 1975 she was selected as a Canadian delegate to France for an Architecture Study Program. [9]

Artistic career

As part of the Art Gallery of Ontario Extension Services "Artist with their Work" Program, Creates exhibited a collection of thirteen cibachrome photographs of landscapes on the east and west coasts of Canada, England, Wales, and Ireland. [10] In describing the exhibit she says:

"The actions of nature may seem random or unpredictable; the way smooth stones sit naturally at the shore appears to have no organization. I have found though, that if I manipulate any of them, the interference is obvious. The kind of order I impose is unlikely to occur naturally. But the imposition is slight. The next high tide will disturb my arrangement and re-organize the elements again. Nature is never finished." [10]

As a part of the exhibit, Creates also hosted an illustrated lecture and landscape art workshop with local participants in the Thunder Bay region. [10] Creates also toured with the exhibit to Windsor. [11]

Creates has centered her recent work around six acres of woods (owned by the artist) in Portugal Cove, NL. There she has established the Boreal Forest Poetry Garden, which sees annual thematic programming of live art, poetry readings and collaborations between artists, while making thematic links between art and science.[1][2]

A major retrospective of Marlene Creates’ work called Marlene Creates: Places Paths and Pauses toured across Canada from 2017 to 2019. Curated by Susan Gibson Garvey (independent curator; former Director/Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and Andrea Kunard (Associate Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Canada), and organized by The Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Dalhousie University Art Gallery, the exhibition was hosted by The Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax, NS), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery[3] (Fredericton, NB), The Rooms Art Gallery (St. John’s, NL), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, PEI), and Carleton University Art Gallery[4] (Ottawa, ON). An accompanying catalogue presents the work from the exhibition, with text by the curators (published by Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, 2017).

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  3. ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Marlene Creates « Royal Canadian Academy of Arts" . Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  5. ↑ "Newfoundland photographer Marlene Creates honoured at Contact 2013".
  6. ↑ "Governor General's Award Winners Announced". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
  7. ↑ https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2021/exec/0716n08-2/ [ bare URL ]
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  10. 1 2 3 "Newsletter September - October 1983" Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art September 1983
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