Marlene Creates
Marlene Creates is an environmental artist who lives and works in old-growth boreal forest on the island of Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk. Underlying all her work for over 40 years has been an interest in place—not as a geographical location but as a process.
Her work has been presented in over 350 exhibitions and screenings across Canada and internationally. She has curated exhibitions, worked in artist-run centres, and taught visual arts at colleges and universities. In 2019 she received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and in 2021 she was invested into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. www.marlenecreates.ca
Pause here / Faites une pause ici, Victoria Park, Charlottetown 2023
5 public signs, aluminum composite panels with over-laminated digital prints printed with eco-solvent ink on adhesive-backed vinyl; installed on stumps and/or pieces of tree trunks from trees felled in post-tropical storm Fiona, each 8 inches high x 12.75 inches wide / 20.3 x 32.4 cm.
Following natural disasters like hurricanes, we see a lot of devastation. These five signs invite you to use various senses to value what remains in Victoria Park. Such multi-sensory actions could be taken anywhere in order to engage with and appreciate our world.