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Michael Borkowsky
Jan 31, 20161 min read
Perfume Portrait #8 – Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley 50ml EDT Description The logical alternative to the blandness of modern television, this fragrance allows you to re-live...
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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 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
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
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 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
Nov 3, 20132 min read
Back With a Spice Rack
If you have been wondering where I have escaped to for the last month or so (and let’s face it, most of you have) I can joyously claim...
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Michael Borkowsky
Sep 6, 20132 min read
My Paint-Making Workshop Experience
So, I’ve finally gone and done a bit of teaching. I have finally imparted whatever remnants of wisdom I have onto others, which they can...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jul 31, 20132 min read
Seeing the Future
My latest work signifies something of a breakthrough in terms of what a jar of paint can depict: A degree of subjection is instantly...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jul 25, 20132 min read
The Problem With Photography
Yesterday I endured the acquaintance of an extremely heavy, cumbersome and joyless piece of apparatus commonly known as a ‘camera.’ As...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jul 4, 20132 min read
Things Are Finally Starting to Happen!
in January, armed with a multitude of ideas and a copious supply of acrylic paint, I moved to Sheffield. Seven months later, and I can...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jun 21, 20131 min read
The Art of Sharing
There have been a few whisperings reaching me of late suggesting that it might be bloody lovely if I shared a few of my techniques with...
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Michael Borkowsky
Jun 6, 20132 min read
The Identity of Painting
Over the last week or so I have been concerned with the identity of painting. Specifically, I have been thinking about how the practice...
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Michael Borkowsky
May 31, 20132 min read
Cup of Tea, Anyone?
What exactly is a cup of tea? It’s a bloody good question, I’m sure you’ll agree, and one that perhaps art is able to explain: Or at...
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Michael Borkowsky
May 12, 20132 min read
On Teaching
Why paint making should be for everyone. Teaching. It’s a concept I have entertained since watching my year 7 art teacher painstakingly...
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Michael Borkowsky
May 2, 20132 min read
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...
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Michael Borkowsky
Apr 18, 20131 min read
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...
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Michael Borkowsky
Mar 29, 20132 min read
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...
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Michael Borkowsky
Mar 21, 20132 min read
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...
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