Tuning and Being Tuned By a Patch of Boreal Forest: Works from Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland, 2002–Ongoing
Join Marlene Creates, a Canadian environmental artist, as she explores the relationship between human experience, memory, language and the land, and the impact they have on each other.
Marlene Creates is a Canadian environmental artist living and working on the island of Newfoundland. Her work has been presented in over 350 exhibitions and screenings across Canada and internationally.
Marlene is not a studio artist who makes things – she has worked outside for over 45 years. For half that time, the focus of her work has been one particular place –the 6-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest, traversed by the Blast Hole Pond River, where she lives on the island of Newfoundland/ Ktaqmkuk.
Her work has been an exploration of the reciprocal relationships between human experience, memory, language and the land, and the impact they have on each other. She says, “My work does not come from my imagination but simply from paying attention to what is already here.”
