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By not planning the outcome, I hope to achieve the same coherence and objectivity that a random slice of nature (or a readymade) always posses. Gerhard Richter

Influenced by this conceptual thinking Borowa renounced her own mark from the painting process to remove her subjectivity. Instead of painting nature, she wants to create with nature. The process itself is central to Dorota's inquiry, seeing it as a life lesson that teaches her humility, openness, attentiveness, mindfulness, patience, determination and forgiveness.

Water shapes the surface of our planet, is transparent and vital for all lifeforms. Its ever-changing states and movement can reflect the temporality of life. Different states of water collected in various places have created a vocabulary in Dorota's work - be it rain, ice or seawater. In the act of assisting water in painting an image, rather than exerting total control - she mixes it with oil paint and turpentine, and occasionally ink to allow the materials to react organically. Personal loss instigated Borowa's experimentation with abstract images and the limiting of her colour palette to different shades of black. The unpredictability and limited control of Dorota's painting process make her works become a place between accident and design, between acceptance and destruction. 

Dorota Borowa is a Polish visual artist based in Kerry, Ireland. She works across a range of media including oil painting, printmaking, video and photography. Borowa received her MFA from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. Dorota exhibits both nationally and internationally and has been awarded a number of Artist in Residence programmes. To date Dorota has received bursaries from the South Dublin County Council (2019) as well as twice from the Polish Ministry of Culture (2006, 2011). She was long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. Her paintings are in the collection of the National Museum in Gdansk in Poland. Her work has been selected for the second issue of Bloomers Magazine (cover artist). Borowa's painting was also featured in the film 'Monument' by award winning Polish director Jagoda Szelc.

Contact: d.borowa@gmail.com