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Margie Kelk

Artist member since 2021
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Toronto, Ontario

MARGIE KELK Toronto-based multi-media artist Margie Kelk takes an exploratory and experimental approach as she appropriates and reconstructs visual fragments of ideas through diverse media that include ceramic, bronze and aluminium sculpture, animation, drawing, painting and digital applications. Half of Everything (2020), a film by Margie Kelk and Lynne Slater with music by Ian Kelk, premiered at the Red Head Gallery in 2020 has been screened in many film festivals internationally, including the Tagore International Film Festival, held at the Gitanjali Cultural Complex, Prabhat Sarani, Bolpur, West Bengal, India. UnderSee (2018), an animated film co-directed by Margie Kelk and Lynne Slater, has been featured in over ninety film festivals nationally and internationally, including the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California, USA; Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Hôtel Paris Lafayette, Paris, France; the Portugal International Film Festival at the Pestana Palacio do Freixo, Porto, Portugal, and the International Shorts Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Margie Kelk’s first award-winning stop-motion animated film, Substratae (2015) has been featured in close to one-hundred festivals nationally and internationally, including The New Renaissance Film Festival, London, UK; and the New York State International Film Festival, in Albany, New York. Recent exhibitions include In: FLUX at the Red Head Gallery, Toronto. A virtual 3D tour of IN: Flux is available on Kelk’s website. Her work has been featured in numerous literary and visual arts publications, including The Adroit Journal, The Scrivener Creative Review, Blouin Artinfo, and Canadian Art Magazine. Upcoming commissioning projects include artwork for the PhoeNX Ensemble's Jade Emperor and the Great Race Project. Margie Kelk completed courses in drawing and painting at the Toronto School of Art. Kelk is a graduate of Wellesley College, and the Johns Hopkins University (PhD.)


Work

2023 oil paintings
Other

Inside the Studio


Q+A

Favourite musical artist / band right now

Amici Chamber Ensemble, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Arkel Trio

Favourite book

Dante's Divine Comedy

What do you listen to when you work?

Silence

Favourite artist(s) right now

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Sonia Delaunay, Anslem Keifer

Why is art important to you?

Art inspires reflection and may provide an escape from the stresses of every day life.

Favourite medium

I love using inks and water media, also graphite as I love drawing.

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Upcoming Exhibitions
2020-21

Red Head Gallery
IN:Flux

2021

John B. Aird Gallery
Sculpture 2021

Select Past Exhibitions
2019

Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Photophobia

2018

Red Head Gallery
UnderSee

2017

Harcourt House Gallery
Substratae

Accolades
2021

Margie Kelk & Lynne Slater
Best Experimental Film in the Toronto Indie Shorts Film Festival (online)

2020

Margie Kelk & Lynne Slater
Best North American Short, Bedford International Film Festival, Bedford, Virginia, USA

Press
2019

We Are Moving Stories
an interview with Director/Producer Margie Kelk with Carmela Baranowska, Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, September 2019, online

2018

Blouin ArtInfo
Margie Kelk’s UnderSee at the Red Head Gallery

2018

Canadian Art Magazine
UnderSee Margie Kelk

2017

VUE Weekly
Substratae, Artifacts, Margie Kelk at Harcourt House by Heather Skinner,

2016

Canadian Art Magazine
Must-Sees This Week 11-03-16

2015

Canadian Art Magazine
Must-Sees This Week 27-05-15

Education

Toronto School of Art
Graduate Diploma (1983-87)

1976

The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, (Italian and French Literature)

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