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‘Painting Portraits’ at Bowery Visual Arts

by Viv Owen, Viv Owen

Very happy to be returning to The Bowery on Saturday 13 May for our ‘Painting Portraits’ session, working from a sitter. Call Bowery on 0113 2242284 to book or via their website thebowery.org Here’s a short video of the joint exhibition […]

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Collection

Madge

by Ivan Grieve

In responding a Madge Gill commission proposal I became a little obsessed with making drawings of Madge.The more I did the more I enjoyed it and experimented.I have found that using ink and wash with soft oil pastel really lets […]

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Kreepers

by Francis Duggan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2aov8HpRY this is a short video i did in my 1st year. Stop motion. The music is by Josh Wink. i’m quite proud of this one!

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Blog Student

Fran Duggan Art

by Francis Duggan

This is a personal journey through my years at The University of Bolton studying Fine Art…The if’s, what’s, and the Attempts… The Homework and the Studio processes, my tiny biosphere of stuff n’ that.

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Pondering Platforms Project

by Michael Borkowsky

Earlier this month I exhibited at Platforms Project, Athens as part of a group exhibition that looked at the contemplation of our solar system. I, alongside artists Sharon Mossbeck and Alison Whitmore, took 3 planets and interpreted them through our […]

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A Fragrant Few Months

by Michael Borkowsky

Before September this year I didn’t know what my physical limits were when considering my career as an artist. Since the beginning I have adopted a somewhat cavalier ‘I’ll get things done at all costs’ attitude that, by and large, […]

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Event Exhibition

The Other Man

by Rebecca Foster
  • Archive
  • Venue:
    https://www.downstairsbrixton.com
  • From:
    November 30, 2017
  • To:
    December 04, 2017
  • Location:
    London
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Orchard Square Residency Diary #3

by Michael Borkowsky

October will see me utilise this blog for documenting, describing and assessing my Orchard Square artist’s residency. We’re just over a week in and I feel as though I have began to assert my creative integrity within the space. It has become […]

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Orchard Square Residency Diary #2

by Michael Borkowsky

October will see me utilise this blog for documenting, describing and assessing my Orchard Square artist’s residency. We’re just over a week in and I feel as though I have began to assert my creative integrity within the space. As every day […]

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Orchard Square Residency Diary #1

by Michael Borkowsky

October will see me utilise this blog for documenting, describing and assessing my Orchard Square artist’s residency. The residency affords me one month housed in what is nominally a retail unit in the heart of Sheffield city centre. Positioned in […]

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Call Out to Artists – Why do You Make Art?

by Michael Borkowsky

My upcoming solo exhibition at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, will see me exhibit 20 perfumes. Each perfume will be a portrait of another artist, achieved through an established process that begins by asking artists the question ‘why do you make art?’ […]

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Exhibiting my Perfumed Self Portrait

by Michael Borkowsky

My perfumed self portrait is complete and currently nestled between 15 other works in an exhibition curated and devised by myself and artist Sharon Mossbeck entitled Alternative Portraits The aim of Alternative Portraits is to both investigate and celebrate innovative […]

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Perfumed Personas

by Michael Borkowsky

This October sees me take up an artists’ residence in orchard Square – a retail unit in Sheffield. The residency will be open to the public, and as such it provides a means to develop my body of work and add […]

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