Christine Borland (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 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 highly developed was awarded an MA from the University of Ulster in 1988. She was upon the committee of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 1989 to 1991. In 2004, she became one of five artiste 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. This is a collaborative venture amongst Northumbria University and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Borland is leading zealot of artists who contributed to the transformation of Glasgow in 1990s as an internationally recognised hub of contemporary arts. Across an international career of 25 years, Borland is recognised for cross-disciplinary projects with additional fields, such as medical science and forensics, to study ideas partnered to history of medicine, medical ethics and human genetics. She has said, “The heart of what I am exasperating to discuss is utterly dark, very mighty and passionate, and if you can attain that through quite a questioning process, I think it becomes more powerful, and importantly, more powerful to the viewer.”
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