Marlene MacCallum lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada on the unceded traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Wendat and Haudenosaunee Peoples. Marlene is an Honorary Research Professor of the Visual Arts Program, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University where she taught printmaking, photography and book arts. She retired from teaching in 2016 and relocated from Corner Brook, NL to PEC. Her practice has also moved, from singular photogravure prints to their integration into book works to the inclusion of writing and interactive digital formats. Consistent is the attention to the poetic potential of the ordinary matters of daily life. Marlene has exhibited prints, and book works in 147 solo, invited and juried exhibitions in 19 countries. Her works are held in 57 public collections. Marlene was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2006. She and David Morrish co-authored Copper Plate Photogravure: Demystifying the Process (Focal Press) published in 2003. Her research projects on Artists’ Publishing and The Visual Book were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She received the ABE Artist’s Book award for Shadow: Still Life in conjunction with the Art of the Book 2018. In 2020 her project, Shadows Cast and Present, was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals Grant. Her solo exhibition, Library of Shadows, was shown at the United Contemporary Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. Marlene regularly presents at conferences and symposium such as her presentation at the first Canadian Artists’ Book Symposium held at OCADU, Toronto, ON in 2025. Marlene’s current research focuses on honing a relation-based vs extractive approach to image-making.