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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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Graduates and Tailored Studios
Consumed by the practice of painting, thoughts, seemingly unrelated, can not only emerge, but crystallise. So it came as no surprise a...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 28, 20143 min read
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A Departure to the Countryside
Leaving food alone for a bit to think about trees instead. Landscape. It’s a subject that – like still-life – can be given a bit of a...

Michael Borkowsky
May 2, 20132 min read
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The Constant Desire For Progression
I love to criticise and bitch. It fills part of my moral conscious probably technically reserved for, I don’t know, being able to...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 18, 20131 min read
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The Tentative Steps Towards Selling Paint
I’ve made some lovely jars of paint. Now what? I have now been living in Sheffield for over two months and, frankly, I think I’m doing...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 29, 20132 min read
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Food for Paint’s Sake
How can art made from food be made relevant? A simple Google search of art and food conjures up so many insipid images of landscapes...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 21, 20132 min read
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On Studio Spaces
Why your studio space should be both embraced and confronted. Upon my recent move to Sheffield, I have acquired new dwellings and, for...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 14, 20132 min read
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Food and Light
An exercise in non-edible culinary practice. This – you’ll no doubt be pleased to know – is just a short little post that considers the...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 8, 20132 min read
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Moving and Mapping
The City of Chester is known for a lot of things: Romans, shopping, being old and – surely most significantly of all – being where...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 4, 20132 min read
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On The Stains Made By Hot Liquids
Stains made from mugs are an accidental triumph of human intervention. No, they really are. Countless are the times where I have peered...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 29, 20121 min read
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Tomato Ketchup and the Universe
Thoughts towards physical connections I am beginning to develop an affinity with the humble tomato sauce bottle. It is an affinity which...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 5, 20122 min read
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