Baker & Borowski

Baker & Borowski is an artist-curator partnership between sculptor and placemaking specialist Catherine Borowski and painter and music producer Lee Baker. Catherine is the founder and creative director of Produce UK, an event-production consultancy and cultural programmer that works with brands, businesses and developers to conceive and deliver experiential placemaking strategies ranging from installations and exhibitions to large-scale festivals.

Lee’s artistic career began in the 1990s, when he drew on his love of manga and experience customising cars to produce site-specific installations at locations around the UK. This evolved into work as a scenic artist for the likes of the National Theatre and English National Opera; then grew into an international fine art career characterised by vividly colourful large-format paintings and installations depicting meta-cities and architectural environments, often on the cusp of destruction.

In 2017 the two artists teamed up to re-conceive the idea of the exhibition space, launching SKIP Gallery – an ongoing series of collaborative, site-specific artworks housed in skips on public sites. More recently, the duo has introduced the Fitting Room Residency – another site-specific exhibition programme that this time takes place in the changing rooms of shops and department stores. Now formally united as Baker & Borowski, the duo are on a mission to bring unexpected eruptions of art into the everyday urban landscape.

Zetteler began working with Lee and Catherine in 2018 in the run-up to the SKIP Gallery exhibition Upgrade (in which artist Richard Woods marked the London Festival of Architecture by dumping an entire house in their skip). We’re excited to be joining the pair as they continue to rewrite the rules on where art can and cannot take place, and will be helping them share news about their ever-more ambitious projects in the months to come.

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