Christine Borland
Christine Borland was born 1965 BirthDarvel, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Lives and works in HomeGlasgow.
Categories: BritArt Installation art Painting
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Phantom Twins
Leather, sawdust and replica foetal skulls
Leather, sawdust and replica foetal skulls
The art of Christine Borland embraces scientific thought and research to explore the fragile yet resilient nature of human life. The methods and materials Christine Borland chooses for her art (such as spider-dragline filament, bone china, bronze, and glass) contrast with the gravity of the issues she addresses: genetics, individual identity, medical ethics and mortality. Christine Borland’s immersion in the realm of science allows us to view contested issues and significant advances in unique and unexpected ways…
Through meticulous research, Borland – who was short-listed for the 1997 Turner Prize – explores life, death and how social systems and institutions exploit and devalue life. In ‘English Family China’ a number of real human skulls, imported from South America via the USA – one foetal, one adult male, one adult female and one six year old child – are her starting point…
Hela, 2000
Christine Borland is one of Scotland’s most successful and internationally recognised artists, and is currently a research fellow at Glasgow School of Art…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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