Marlene Creates
| Marlene Creates | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Marlene Creates 1952 (age 63–64) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Queen's University |
| Known for | visual artist, poetry |
| Movement | Environmentalism |
| Website |
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| Elected | Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2001) |
Marlene Creates (born 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist currently living in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Creates studied visual arts at Queen's University, then lived in Ottawa for twelve years, moving to Newfoundland in 1985.
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.[1] Her work has been shown in over 300 exhibitions across the world.
In 2001 Creates was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts,[2] 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."[3]
Education
Creates attained her bachelor's in art education at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, attending from 1970 – 1974.[4] She traveled to Venice, Italy in 1973 as part of the university's Art and Architecture Study.[4] In 1975 she was selected as a Canadian delegate to France for an Architecture Study Program.[4]
Artistic career
Initial Career 1980-1985
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.[5] 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." [5] As a part of the exhibit, Creates also hosted an illustrated lecture and landscape art workshop with local participants in the Thunder bay region.[5]
Creates also toured with the exhibit to Windsor.[6]
Awards
- Queen's University Bursary for study in Venice, Italy 1973 [4]−
- Ontario Arts Council Grant 1976 [4]
- Canada Council Grant 1980 [4]
- Ontario Arts Council Grant 1981 [4]
- Canada Council Grant 1981 [4]
Bibliography
- Jenkner, Ingrid; Kathleen Ritter (1998). Marlene Creates: Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994. Halifax: MSVU Art Gallery. ISBN 1895215811.
References
- ↑ http://www.paulpetro.com/exhibitions/393-Marlene-Creates:-Selected-Works-From-30-Years,-1982-2012
- ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/newfoundland-photographer-marlene-creates-honoured-at-contact-2013/article12269460/
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Artists with their Work" Art Gallery of Ontario Winter 1981 – 1982
- ↑ Artcite September- October pamphlet, Artcite Inc. 1984