Charlie Tuesday Gates

I was asked to do a talk at the W.I Dalston Darlings last month. They were searching for inspirational woman and apparently I was one of them. I completely forgot until the day before so had done no prep or advertising but by the time I started the room was bursting at the seams with young woman so I had no reason to stress no one would come.  I did a little talk, a lot of talking really and then we got cracking with an exclusive: Jordan's Pussy- a dried out cat carcass put in the pose of a cat (and Jordan on her beach catalog shoot) which we would dress for the first time since it had been skinned. This went down a storm and every body wanted a piece.    The cat's out the bag  Nice to see everybody getting stuck in   There was also a small improvised D.I.Y Taxidermy demo done on the lid of my spills kit. I had 3 blind mice and 3 lady's all having a stab on the smallest surface there could have been ...

A long time ago now I signed up for a 'mentoring scheme' with a gallery in Notting Hill.  Would you trust a  modelling  agency who got you to pay upfront with the promise of unlimited work and ultimate success? Definitely not. If it sounds to good to be true, if you are even the tiny bit suspicious and have to part with money- Don’t do it.We all know these things are scams. So why was it so different in my case? I went to my audition with a   decomposing fox   in a suitcase(Fox In A Box). Pretty hardcore for a gallery in Notting Hill. My work was clearly of a confrontational nature, but amazingly that didn’t seem to matter. With a sound recorder thrust up my top and camera man recording everything that was said, I got through the rigorous audition process and instantly badgered into handing over a large deposit. Did I choose my rent or the apparent chance of a lifetime? An offer seemingly too good to turn down. I wanted to believe everything they promis...

According to hugely reliable resources at Croobal.com   I am one of the top 5 U.K taxidermists: TOP 5 UK TAXIDERMISTS Very funny article: "Charlie Tuesday Gates Newly well known UK Taxidermist Charlie Thursday Gateways not only generates her own perform through the method of taxidermy, she also serves frequent DIY Taxidermy activities where those fascinated are welcomed to get some hands on face in the strange world of pet carnation. She is another UK Taxidermist who will be displaying her encounter at 2012’s Brighton Fashion week with a discuss. While the artist’s perform is not quite attractive it is under no circumstances boring." If that's not something to believe I don't know what is.  Next D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE show coming up in October. "You certainly won't be bored!"

I have been selected to take part in this wonderful exhibition. Turning prosthetic limbs into works of art.  25th Aug at The Rag Factory My names wrong but that's ok. I've been billed as Charlie Tuesday Winter Gates. Charlie Tuesday Gates will do. Here's some sculpture I made earlier  but won't be featured in the show.   One Step Ahead   Look What The Stork Brung   Every Time I Look Into Your Eyes I See the Future I accidentally left my designated limb in the pub but after a successful advertising campaign I got it back.  Come see the finished piece and others at The Rag Factory, from the 25th of Aug SPARE PARTS Limbs in the news Love from Charlie Tuesday Gates

Taxidermy Puppet 'SMILE' O.k so here goes trouble.    Taxidermy has  exploded  in recent years and  this is something I created a little while ago.  Something I have kept under wraps because of fear.  What has the world come to? How far do we have to push the limits in life and death. . . . . What do we have to do to breath new life into an ancient art? Is nothing sacred anymore? Pointless shock and sensationalism seems to be the only way to get ahead these days. If you can't beat them, become the future. Animals are being exploited in art, fashion and on the dinner table. They are just another product of consumerism, freely available to use and manipulate for commercial gain. When they are of no financial use to us we toss them aside, their lifeless bodies left to adorn skips, furnaces and roadsides. Strangely, while people’s consciences are rarely pricked by vacuum-packed cuts in the supermarket, restaurant meals served with po...

I arrived on site Friday afternoon 1 week before the festival started. My boxes of toys and materials were taken to a storage container and it was here that the magic would happen the following day. . . So first off I made quite a strange half man half deer half instrumentalist out of an old torso, chicken wire/feet plus a deer’s head that had been crudely preserved. On his head sits an upside down crow- like it just fell and died there, just like that. The body was tricky to put together. I wanted to make it quite animalistic so I used any brown materials I could find lying in the woods to create a shaggy beast type thing. He was me least favourite piece even though he took the longest. Just not my sort of thing if you know what I mean. It just wasn’t real enough for me- or just not scary enough maybe. It didn’t scare me in the same way the others did. It didn’t disgust me. I had brought an awful lot of chicken heads and feet with me.  In my mind I saw a t...