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Perfume Portrait #15 – Lee Green
Lee Green 50ml EDT Description Clean, crisp with a neutral sensitivity that allows the user to attach their own sense of self – whoever...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 13, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #14 – Dave Cotton
Dave Cotton 50ml EDT Description It reads like a cave painting with a fragrance designed to capture the fundamental need to create...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 10, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #13 – Brian Daines
Brian Daines 50ml EDT Description A fragrance to realise your dreams and embrace your reality! Assailing concious and unconscious...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 9, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #12 – Sharon Mossbeck
Sharon Mossbeck 50ml EDT Description A vessel the living with ritualistic embellishments. This is a fragrance that reminds you of the...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 8, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #11 – David Andrews
David Andrews 50ml EDT Description Graphically appealing and describing multiple disciplines with boldness and confidence. This is a well...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 3, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #10 – Tutku Barbaros
Tutku Barbaros 50ml EDT Description Be allured by this naturally sweet, luscious fragrance that screams femininity yet has a potent kick....

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 2, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #9 – Pip Barrett
Pip Barrett 50ml EDT Description All the joy of your favorite story in a bottle! With visual embellishments that tell of narrative...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 1, 20161 min read
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An Invitation to my Perfume as Practice Private View
Join me for a private viewing of my exhibition at Bank Street Arts – named Perfume as Practice – on Friday 4th March, 6-8pm. The...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 29, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #7 – Chris Boland
Chris Boland 50ml EDT Description Delightfully shiny and dependable in an emergency, this fragrance is the perfect companion to those...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 23, 20161 min read
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Perfume Portrait #6 – Karen Cupola
Karen Cupola 50ml EDT Description Blood red with visible fingerprints. The tactile, visceral and passionate nature of this scent reaches...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 22, 20161 min read
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Fiery Fella
Behold, my first attempt at a scented candle! Not bad eh? But why?! I hear you ask. Well, as well as it being a notable use for fragrance...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 20, 20161 min read
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Reflecting on Patterns and Poetry
Three collages, in situ in an exhibition at Unity Theatre, Liverpool alongside the work of six other artists, each responding to the...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 17, 20161 min read
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Beginning the Year with Patterns in Poetry
What better way to kick of the year than three collages that extract and illustrate poetry from video game code?! ‘No Origin’ (2016) All...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 3, 20161 min read
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20×20 Vision
The tail end of 2015 provides two things; A platform for reflecting on the year and time to prepare for the year ahead. Indeed, 2016 is...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 18, 20152 min read
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Things I’ve Seen – Going Public, Sheffield.
In the midst of preparing, installing and maintaining Speculative Studio Spaces I have also been able to do something I rarely do – Go...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 17, 20152 min read
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Notes on a Speculative Studio
Last Friday saw the opening of my current Speculative Studio Spaces exhibition at Access Space, Sheffield, and features an instillation...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 25, 20152 min read
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Playing with Poetry
Positioned in between satisfying my crowdfunding rewards and waiting for perfume materials to arrive, I find myself in a brief period of...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 7, 20151 min read
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Diary of a Painting Designed for Logistics
‘Brain in a Bottle’ is a painting created for logistical ease. It aims to represent visually the implications of my Bank Street Arts...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 23, 20152 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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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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