RETURN TO RECENT WORKS

APPROACHING HOME, 2024

Christine Borland, works

The Distaff Dialogues; Flax Grower, Flax Spinner, Flax Weaver, 2023

Details:
3 x 12 minute films, total 36 min, looped
Motion-capture, 3D visualisation, CGI and editing by John Butler
Narrated Dialogue written and performed by Christine Borland & Grace Borland Sinclair
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Practice Turns 2023/24

Details:
2 x Limited Edition Digital Prints
Practice Turns; Spinster, 2023, Edition 3 of 9,
Practice Turns; Spool Winder, 2024, Edition 1 of 9
A2 size, printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matt Fine Art - smooth 308 gsm paper using Epson Ultrachrome HDR pigment inks
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Fustian Cloth 2023

Details:
Handspun/handwoven linen and cotton cloth
200cm x 140cm Installation Dimensions Variable
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Foundation Cloth 2022

Details:
Homegrown/handspun/handwoven linen cloth
141cm x 210cm
Installation Dimensions Variable
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Preparatory Work, Foreign Fibre Cloth 2024

Details:
Wall and floor-based installation. Installation Dimensions Variable
Materials; Yarn winders, bobbins, 25 x balls of yarn (hand-spun from flax, aloe, pineapple, jute, ramie and hemp fibres)
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Charka Conversations 2021 (collaborative work with Cat Auburn)

Details:
Letters between the artists, written on hand-made harakeke paper, charkha spinning wheel
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Photos:
Lucia Zanmonti & Cat Auburn

 

DESCRIPTION

Approaching Home is a meeting of works by artist-friends from different generations, connected across the world by a shared settler colonial history. Cat is from Aotearoa and now lives in Argyll, Scotland. Christine was born in Ayrshire and her home is also in Argyll.

The artists have collaboratively produced the exhibition, focusing on carefully chosen materials, processes and iterative works to introduce and question the concept of ‘home’ through shared histories, ecological pathways and endangered making traditions.

Cat’s bronze, film and textile-based artworks were developed during a period of doctoral research into trans-Tasman Anzac-related narratives of national identity and collective memory. Christine’s on-going series of film, cloth and printworks attend to both historical and future-facing lore surrounding the growing and hand-working of plant-based textiles.

Approaching Home works with shared material culture, autotheoretical art practices and intentional knowledge-sharing, to weave enduring cross-cultural conversations.

Exhibition supported by the Jan Warburton Turst, Te Whare Hēra International Artists Residency and The Hope Scott Trust.