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Encyclopedia > Christine Borland

Christine Borland (born 1965) is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. ...


Christine Borland was born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland. She attended the University of Ulster, and the Glasgow School of Art. Location Nicknamed The Lang Toun due to its quaint appearance on Ordnance Survey maps, the East Ayrshire town of Darvel (population 3,613) is situated 9 miles east from Kilmarnock in the Irvine Valley, and lies near to Loudoun Hill. ... Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir in Scottish Gaelic) is a region of south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... The University of Ulster (UU) is a multi-centre university located in Northern Ireland and is the largest single university on the island of Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland. ... 194. ...


She works with forensic science and medicine, including police and judicial processes and collaborations with the Medical Research Council’s Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at Glasgow University. 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."[1]


In November 1996, she presented a show Second Class Male, Second Class Female, which was of two reconstructed heads.


In 1997, for her first solo show in London, L'Homme Double at the Lisson Gallery, she commissioned 6 academically-trained sculptors to make life-size clay heads of the Nazi Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele from photocopied pictures of him which she provided and descriptions which Auschwitz survivors had made.[2] The Lisson Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Bell Street, Lisson Grove, London, founded by Nicholas Logsdail in 1967. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Josef Mengele Dr Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979), was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. ...


In 1997 she was a nominee for the "all women" Turner Prize, which was won by Gillian Wearing. Her work From Life was a record of her forensic reconstruction of a missing Asian woman. This started with a skeleton and concluded with a bronze cast of the head. The concern of the arist was with issues of depersonalisation of the individual that take place with medical establishments. Her rebuilding of a missing person was a process of re-personalisation.[3] The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English artist. ...


Solo exhibitions include the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), Dundee Contemporary Arts, De Appel (Amsterdam}, Fundação Serralves (Lisbon) and Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich).


She is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London. The Lisson Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Bell Street, Lisson Grove, London, founded by Nicholas Logsdail in 1967. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...


See also

British Art is the art of the island of Britain. ...

References

  1. ^ The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas: press release 2002 Retrieved March 24, 2006
  2. ^ Christine Borland at the Lisson by Melissa E. Feldman Retrieved March 24, 2006
  3. ^ Christine Borland by Robert Mahoney Retrieved March 24, 2006

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Borland plays upon this in her piece L'Homme Double (1997) in which she presented six sculptors with a pair of photographs and a set of descriptions from which they would model busts of Mengele.
Borland's familiar From Life project (1994-97) - in which forensic scientists have 'reconstructed' a mail-order human skeleton - is aired in slide-lecture format, while a new work that compliments it is also exhibited: Skull.
Borland's interest in this text is obvious, but what energises these books is the fact that they have been produced on a poor photocopier, so that the resulting pages are stricken with rashes of fl dots.
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