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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...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 4, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 10, 20153 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Dec 19, 20144 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Dec 6, 20142 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 20, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 2, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 24, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 18, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 5, 20141 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 27, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 21, 20142 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 14, 20141 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 7, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 30, 20142 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 24, 20143 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 5, 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 12, 20141 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...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 4, 20143 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...

Michael Borkowsky
May 18, 20142 min read
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