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Scented Thoughts #1 – Scent doesn’t equal memory
‘Scented Thoughts’ are blog posts that seek to document thought processes towards the principles of scent and how scent exists in our...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 7, 20151 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 10, 20153 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Dec 19, 20144 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 20, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 2, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 24, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 18, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 5, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 27, 20142 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 21, 20142 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 14, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 24, 20143 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 5, 20141 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 4, 20143 min read
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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...

Michael Borkowsky
May 18, 20142 min read
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Reflecting on My First Solo Exhibition
A little over a week ago ‘Shelf Life’ –  my solo exhibition at Gage Gallery, Sheffield – came to an end. I have had a fair few group...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 19, 20142 min read
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A chance to buy my original paintings for just £5!
Whilst ‘Shelf Life’ – My exhibition currently showing at Gage Gallery, Sheffield – covers a broad spectrum of concerns regarding food,...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 5, 20142 min read
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The Pressures of an Impending Exhibition
This is more of a freak post than a new one – it is a direct result of my previous post and acts as an appendage to it. It is merely to...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 22, 20142 min read
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News About My Upcoming Exhibition and Paint Making Workshop.
Over the last month I have been feverishly painting as many pictures of fruit as I can; applying paint directly to loaves of bread;...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 8, 20142 min read
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