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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Thinly Spread – Artistic Endeavours Away From Food
The connotations associated with food and the re-imagining of still life paintings will always occupy my endeavours. However, for the...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 27, 20142 min read
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Learning From America
Two weeks ago I embarked on a journey to Jamestown, NY, in order to install and create work for an exhibition which was to be held over...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 15, 20143 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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