Christine Borland

Christine Borland
FRSE
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland
EducationUniversity of Ulster and Glasgow School of Art
MovementYoung British Artists

Christine Borland FRSE (born 1965) is a Scottish artist. Born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland, Borland is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 (won by Gillian Wearing) for her work From Life[1] at Tramway, Glasgow. Borland works and lives in Kilcreggan, Argyll, as a BALTIC Professor at the BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art.

Borland studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and later was awarded an MA from the University of Ulster in 1988.[2] She was on the committee of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 1989 to 1991. In 2004, she became one of five artist awarded the prestigious Glenfiddich Artist in Residence programme. In 2012 she was appointed BALTIC Northumbria University Professor – where she heads the Institute of Contemporary Art in Newcastle upon Tyne. This is a collaborative venture between Northumbria University and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

Borland is leading member of artists who contributed to the transformation of Glasgow in 1990s as an internationally recognised hub of contemporary arts.[3] Across an international career of 25 years, Borland is recognised for cross-disciplinary projects with other fields, such as medical science and forensics, to explore ideas related to history of medicine, medical ethics and human genetics.[4] She has said, "The heart of what I am trying to discuss is very dark, very strong and passionate, and if you can reach that through quite a rational process, I think it becomes more powerful, and importantly, more powerful to the viewer."[5]

Borland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.[6]

  1. ^ Glasgow, Tramway 25 Albert Drive (17 July 2014). "Tramway – A History". www.tramway.org. Retrieved 3 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Katrina M. Brown & Rob Tufnell, ed. (2001). Here + Now - Scottish Art 1990-2001. Dundee Contemporary Arts. p. 42. ISBN 0-9535178-7-X.
  3. ^ "Christine Borland". www.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Christine Borland". www.gsa.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  5. ^ The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas: press release 2002 Archived 10 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 24 March 2006
  6. ^ "Ms Christine Borland FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2021.