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Welcome to Sets, Series and Ensembles, an exhibition of art in public places. Accompanying each public art placement is a 'First Response' for you to read here on the website. As artists and writers we are constantly collecting ideas, objects, themes, and sentiments. We are often searching for the connections and narratives that help us understand both our lives and our art.
On this cold crisp Autumnal day we step inside for the first time, where we find the first class artwork of Chris Brown. This is the first of three artworks that Chris has created for Sets, Series and Ensembles. We are always thrilled to receive his work, conceptually brilliant they have such a breadth of ideas and forms. Responding to Chris' artwork is Carole Bulewski, who has an equally broad rage of skills and ideas up her sleeve. She is a painter, singer, and weaver of dark lyrics and mysteries. Read her response below.
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Carole Bulewski
Prince Charles… Oops, sorry, King Charles. A photo of King Charles when he was still only Prince Charles, attempting to be seductive, and pretty much failing at it. A stamp of King Charles when he was still only Prince Charles, on top of a collage of stamps of the Queen. Lilac. The stamps of the Queen are of a vibrant lilac hue, contrasting with the black and white of King Charles’s photograph.
The camera moves away and we are… in an art gallery most likely? A photograph exhibition. And there King Charles when he was still only Prince Charles, on a stamp, sitting there on a table next to a flower arrangement, something reminiscent of a funeral parlour, heavy, white and lavender hues, nothing bright and joyful. Just like the picture of King Charles when he was still only Prince Charles.
Time for my tea in the set the previous tenants got back in July 1981 for the royal wedding.
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Chris Brown is an artist, author, editor and art therapist living amongst skyscrapers and regularly exploring the wilder landscapes of the United Kingdom.
Born and raised in the south of France, Carole Bulewski moved to the UK at the end of the second Millennium, eventually settling down in London after a few years in the South West of England, a place that has inspired her with many a supernatural story since – writing first in her native French, but now almost exclusively in the English language. In her writing, she explores how the supernatural can creep into the most mundane of situations. Carole is a member of urban baroque group Firefay.
Tales of Confinement - Carole Bulewski
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