Margie Kelk

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.)