Te Whare Hēra is excited to welcome Cat Auburn and Christine Borland to the residency in collaboration with the upcoming exhibition Approaching Home opening at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Cat has arrived in Aotearoa, and Christine will be participating virtually from the artists’ home in Argyll, Scotland.

Christine Borland is an artist based in Argyll, Scotland who has pioneered cross-disciplinary collaborations at the intersection of ecologies of practice. Christine’s works are built on co-production with; communities of growers and makers, institutions of science and medicine, museums, collections and archives. Current work across the mediums of film, sculpture, cloth artifacts and text, is rooted in cycles of growing and processing plant fibres into cloth; amplifying local textile heritage through a global lens. Works have been exhibited at the British Textile Biennale (BTB) 2023, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 2021, and Deveron Projects (2019-2022) . 

Christine has always taught and been involved in research at art schools and universities; most consistently at Glasgow School of Art, the Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry Truro (as a Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities) and presently at Northumbria University, Newcastle where she works part-time as a Professor of Contemporary Art Practice, co-leading the research group, 'The Cultural Negotiation of Science’ (CNoS) Christine’s works have been shown and permanently sited in numerous international exhibitions, public spaces and collections; including The Turner Prize, the Venice Biennale and the Munster Sculpture Project.