Isabelle Borg

Isabelle Borg (7 September 1959 - 23 September 2010) was a British-Maltese artist. Her work has appeared in several exhibitions in Malta and internationally. Borg was born in London in 1959 to a Maltese father and Italian mother. She studied painting at the Camberwell College of Arts, London, graduating BA (Hons) in 1986. She obtained an MA (History of Art) in 1994 and taught art at the University of Malta. She spent periods of her life in Berlin and West Cork, Ireland apart from Malta. Borg set up the ''Moviment Mara Maltija'' (Maltese Women's Movement) in the late 1980s and later became its President.

Borg exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions internationally between 1985 and 2008. Notable exhibitions include her first solo exhibition at the National Museum of Archaeology, Malta in 1985, a solo exhibition at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland in 2002 and two solo exhibitions at the Durham University in 1998 and 1999. A retrospective exhibition which featured her most notable work entitled 'Lover in the Bull' and a portrait of late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was held at Saint James Cavalier in 2021. Provided by Wikipedia