Public Artwork

Echoes of grace

Marlene Creates, Echoes of grace, 2002
Marlene Creates, Echoes of grace, 2002
Marlene Creates, Echoes of grace, 2002
Location:
Health Sciences Centre, 300 Prince Philip Drive , St. John's, NL, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Creates, Marlene
Text author(s): 
Creates, Marlene
Installation year: 
2001
Description: 

On the photographs are two different sets of text, separated into the left side and the right side on each panel. The two sides are meant to show the different kinds of history that a place can have — there’s the official history and then there are the personal stories.

History: 
Commissioned by the Health Care Corporation of St. John's, to commemorate the Salvation Army Grace General Hospital, 1923-2000.

Dimensions:

Height: 
0.6m
Width: 
0.91m
Note(s): 

"I found in three main sources: first, I researched the Grace archives and annual reports going back several decades; second, I explored around inside the building, and I used some of the printed signs and messages I found posted up on walls and taped inside cupboards; third, and perhaps the most telling of all in conveying what these panels commemorate, was when I was in the building, just after it closed, I found graffiti written on the walls by the staff during the last days they worked there. These messages echo the staff’s own heartfelt feelings about the Grace, and I’ve brought some of these messages forward by transcribing them onto these panels. Otherwise, not many people would have ever seen them."

 

Marlene Creates's Web site (2008). Marlene Creates.
<http://www.marlenecreates.ca/works/2001echoes.html#thumb>

Propriétaire(s): 
Health Care Corporation of St. John
Document(s): 

The Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories, Labrador 1988

Fry, Jacqueline (1990).  The Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories, Labrador 1988. Vancouver : Presentation House Gallery

Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994

Jenkner, Ingrid (1998).  Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994. Halifax : Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, p. 80