Marlene Creates: Landworks 1979 - 1991

This comprehensive survey begins with Creates' early landworks -- "brief interventions", in paper, stone and water, recorded in elegant photographs -- and proceeds through a selection of stone and wood installations and composite photographic works, to selections from her two major "memory map" works involving people in Labrador (1988) and Newfoundland (1989-91). Restructuring the dichotomy between nature and culture, Creates says "The land is important to me, but even more important is the idea that is becomes a 'place' because someone has been there." Organized by the Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery , with a catalogue essay by Susan Gibson Garvey, the exhibition and natural tour has been funded by The Canada Council Exhibition Assistance Program.