Christine Anne Borland

Place: Darvel

Born: 1965

Biography:

Christine Borland is a Scottish artist born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1965. She is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997. Borland studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and later was awarded an MA from the University of Ulster in 1988. 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. Borland is recognized for her 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. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.