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	- HOME - LANDSCAPE - ABSTRACT - PRIMITIVE - PEOPLE - EXHIBITIONS - NEWS & EVENTS - ART BIO - ART STATEMENT - CONTACT - Isabelle Borg ART BIOGRAPHY Isabelle Borg has lived in London (her birthplace, 1959) and Malta, as well as spending periods in Berlin, and West Cork, Ireland. She studied painting at the Camberwell School of Art, London, graduating BA (Hons) in 1986. Since gaining an MA (History of Art) in 1994, she teaches art full-time at the University of Malta. Since 1985, she has regularly held solo exhibitions of her paintings, and often been asked to participate in group shows. Her work is found in a number of public and private collections. Working from her studio in Floriana, Malta, she continues to exhibit locally and internationally, and to publish her research in art. Early solo landscape exhibitions Marine and Maritime Paintings (1991) and Bastions and Harbours (1992) concentrated on Malta's constructed coastline. Later, Two Islands (2004, with photographer Graham Cooper) and Maltese Landscape (2006) were inspired by natural scenery and atmospheric conditions. Much of this change has come from time spent painting Irish landscape since 2000, whilst based in Clonakilty, West Cork. Most recent exhibition Strange Cargo (National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta, 2008) explores the effect of this series of journeys and homecomings, and re-defines an earlier interest in figurative art.
• Education 1982-1986 Foundation and BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting); Camberwell School of Art, London, UK 1994 MA Art (Hist.) University of Malta • Collections National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta Gallery 77, New Bond Street, London Woburn Fine Arts, UK Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland Melitensia Art Gallery, Malta National Contemporary Art Collection of Malta, Malta Ministry for Youth and the Arts, Malta Ministry for Agriculture, Malta Central Bank of Malta, Malta Bank of Valletta, Malta HSBC Malta, Malta Malta International Airport, Malta Various private collections both in Malta and abroad. • Design Jobs 1979-1980 Graphic Designer and Typographer: Decca Record Company Ltd, London, UK • Design projects 1995 Set design for Assemblywomen by Aristophanes, directed by Joe Friggieri, University of Malta Open Air Theatre 1997 Book design and images for Mitt Hajku, poems by Joe Friggieri 1998 Set of four postage stamps commissioned by Posta (Malta) for UNESCOYear of the Ocean • Teaching Experience and Employment 1994 and 1996 Director of Painting and Drawing Landscape in Malta, summer school of the University of Malta at the Foundation for International Studies, Valletta Since 1994 University of Malta: Full-time appointment ( Assistant Lecturer) in Fine Art and History of Art • Publications 1996 "Image, Metaphor, Vision" (section on Creativity and the Arts); Creative Thinking: New Perspectives; ed. Sandra Dingli; University of Malta, 1996 1996 "Definitive Images: the role of women in Malta seen through the people's art Woman in Maltese Art c1600 -1995; ed. Dennis Vella; Ministry for Social Development, 1996 1997 "Painting a realistic picture: Art in Malta today"; Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Malta; ed. Godfrey Baldacchino and Peter Mayo; Mireva Publications, Malta 1997 1998 "The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and her Companions by Mattia Preti"; Treasures of Malta (Easter Issue); ed. Chev. John Manduca; Fondazzjjoni Patrimonju Malti, Malta 1998 2001 Chapter: "The Iconography of Evil in Maltese Art"; Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief; ed. Paul Clough and Jon P. Mitchell; Berghahn Books 2001, New York 2004 The Maritime Ex-voto - a culture of thanksgiving in Malta ;Heritage Books 2004 2008 Chapter together with Paul Clough: "Society in the Body and the Body of Society"; Cross-Currents; ed. Raphael Vella, Allied Publications, 2008 • Bibliography The Dictionary of Artists who painted Malta; Nicholas de Piro; AVC Publishers; editions No.I (1988) and No.II (2002) The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education , Vol. 13 (No.1), May 1999; Chapter covered in article by Jindra Kulich; "Painting a realistic picture: Art in Malta today" (see Publications) • Back to the Top © 2010 Isabelle Borg - All rights reserved - HOME - LANDSCAPE - ABSTRACT - PRIMITIVE - PEOPLE - EXHIBITIONS - NEWS & EVENTS - ART BIO - ART STATEMENT - CONTACT -