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Michael Borkowsky
Feb 4, 20153 min read
More thoughts towards Speculative Studio Spaces
A visit to three separate arts organisations over two days last week has reinforced my Speculative Studio Spaces body of work. Enthused...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jan 10, 20153 min read
Bottled Up – Thoughts Towards Turning Ideas into Perfume
If we think of the reasons why an idea within creative practice remains unfinished, the implications are that the artist thinks the idea...
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Michael Borkowsky
Dec 19, 20144 min read
Charting My Year of Change
2014 has been a joyously productive beast with a tenancy to provide moments of reflection and a degree of transiency. My practice has...
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Michael Borkowsky
Dec 6, 20142 min read
Speculative Studio Spaces
Studio spaces. What are they? Are they a form of refuge? a highly personal space that demands the removal of inhabitation? A platform...
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Michael Borkowsky
Nov 20, 20141 min read
An invitation to my Open Studio & Pop-up Exhibition
As part of Yorkshire Artspace’s Open Studios I am running a two-day exhibition at Exchange Place Studios. The exhibition will act as a...
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Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 20141 min read
Artists’ Paint Colour #4 – Cups Stacked on Top of Each Other
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...
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Michael Borkowsky
Nov 2, 20141 min read
Artists’ Paint Colour #3 – Overheard Conversations
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...
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Michael Borkowsky
Oct 24, 20141 min read
Artists’ Paint Colour #2 – Empty Frame
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...
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Michael Borkowsky
Oct 18, 20141 min read
Artists’ Paint Colour #1 – The Hotel
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...
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Michael Borkowsky
Oct 5, 20141 min read
Playing with PLAY!
As PLAY! is open from now until 31st October, I thought I’d blog about it a little differently – offering small yet enticing snippets of...
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Michael Borkowsky
Sep 27, 20142 min read
Pixel Poetry as Political Practice (well, sort of)
Last Thursday I attended ‘In Our Corner’ – an open mic might at Bank Street Arts which highlighted the fact that politics is able to...
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Michael Borkowsky
Sep 21, 20142 min read
Finding Art in Curating
Whilst there is nothing particularly fresh and innovative about considering a curatorial project as a work of art in its own right, I...
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Michael Borkowsky
Sep 14, 20141 min read
Reflecting on my Latest Paint-Making Workshop
Last Wednesday I held the first of three paint making workshops to be held at The Bessemer II Gallery in Sheffield. As ever, the paint...
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Michael Borkowsky
Sep 7, 20142 min read
The End of the Beginning is Marked With Success
Last Friday saw me manage and curate ‘Sweet Tooth’ – a group exhibition around the theme of food at Funky Aardvark Gallery, Chester. It...
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Michael Borkowsky
Aug 30, 20142 min read
Artists Required for Thoughts Towards a Painting that Doesn’t Exist.
I am creating a piece of work that assesses the nature of painting, and speculates whether a painting needs to exist if we are able to...
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Michael Borkowsky
Aug 24, 20143 min read
An invitation to submit art work around the theme of video games.
Video games. It’s a subject I have tried to grapple with in the context of art for some time. And while I can’t deny that video games are...
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Michael Borkowsky
Aug 5, 20141 min read
The Triumphant return of the Paint Making Workshop!
Unceremoniously, I have sprained my ankle, which has dictated a halt in creative proceedings. I have designed a make-shift studio in my...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jul 12, 20141 min read
Leviathan in Liverpool
Arriving at the second half of the year, and moving artistic endeavour away from the trials of food, I present to you Leviathan; a...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jul 4, 20143 min read
Mid-Year Report – Fourteen for 2014
Happy Independence Day to my American friends. According to my oh-so technical research North America makes up for 18% of visitors to my...
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Michael Borkowsky
May 18, 20142 min read
Stepping into the Sheffield Culinary Scene
For the past few weeks I have had my commercial head thoroughly screwed on. As a contemporary artist untroubled by the stigma that is...
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