Charlie Tuesday Gates

"SING FOR YOUR LIFE!"  LIVE!   On the 11 th of May, see your favourite controversial musical videos brought to sensational life: ONE NIGHT IN PECKHAM, MEOW MEOW and of course, BADGERS ARE INNOCENT. At East London’s Sound Tracks Festival Charlie Tuesday Gates will be showcasing choice cuts from her new performance, a musical foray featuring the recently deceased. Driven by her indignation at the badger cull set to take place in her native West Country, vegan artist and new-wave taxidermist Gates uses shock and song to challenge the dubious presumption that bovine tuberculosis can be ended by slaughtering England's dearest mammal. Born out of her pioneering ‘ DIY Taxidermy Live ’ performances comes SING FOR YOUR LIFE, a bizarre talent show, where three of your favourite dead animal finalists will compete for the chance to live again. Immortalised by you, the audience. Not for the faint-hearted, this unholy union of taxidermy, puppetry and chanson expl...

It's getting closer to the date when the countryside looses one of it's all time heroes. THE BADGER: This cull really does make absolutely no sense AT ALL. Badgers are wonderful, peaceful creatures and have been for thousands of years. Long may they continue to be so...but only with your help. . . . . . . . . . . . Science and the brain says badgers haven't really done anything differently and aren't the main offender in the TB scandal. It's an increase of cattle and their movements that's the problem, our taste for meat and milk would be another. Even if they cull 70% of the population it would only decrease the spread of disease by about 15 percent and it would be a hit and hope situation. We need to get to get together and stop Killing off the countryside. https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257 BADGERS WANTED: I'm in Dorset searching for badgers to sing their hearts out in my new performance. I put...

Tracy Emin's bed popped up in Walthamstow today. . . . You might be surprised to know that this isn't a genuine  Emin... It was me this morning doing a casual bit of guerrilla sculpture on the streets. Bringing contemporary art to the people. Not that anyone in Walthamstow will be able to tell. To the untrained eye it looks like a heap of shit but to the art observer this is clearly a take on the tuner prize winners greatest achievement.  'My Bed'  comes complete with old job center vacancies  beer cans, foil wraps, soiled underwear, cracked eggs,  Pall Mall, old food, savers tissues and general rubbish.   I left the scene of someone else's crime but I couldn't stop thinking about the bed potential so a few hours later I went back.  I see millions of rubbish on the streets, apart from I don't see rubbish- I see amazing potential!   To be honest, i'm a bit embarrassed ...

Taxidermy is very fashionable. . . It's been a snowball for about 4 years +. Aside from hideously confrontational artwork, I also make headpieces. I have tried to keep the pretty things separate from the obscene ones but have transfered my skills, making a couple of taxidermy headpiece's. Above is one I recently created out of a Wood-pigeon.  Magpie headpiece Mind Like Magpie More of my fashion creations can be found here I work on commission or you can hire.  www.mindlikemagpie.com http://www.facebook.com/mindlikeagpie 

Goodness me. My extra special baby sister found this simply stunning Bluetit. Technically it was the best Easter EVER. Even being tapped at home was fun. I decided to put my creative talents to good use and make a few art pieces around the house. This is Jordan aka Katie Price on my homemade cross. In each hand she holds a dinner but you can't see that very well. The sign reads 'The Real Jesus: Verdict- GUILTY!' Found in Chat magazine.    I'm not really sure what they are about but I was totally inspired this Easter.  Not only did my mother actually get me my first Easter egg on actual Easter day, but we also had the most amazing lunch including vegan   tiramisu  and chesseless cheesecake. Even the nut loaf was more than edible.  My mum has been collecting eggs for years. This is one tiny fishtank full. Eventually I ran out of steam and decided to go and find some animals.  Such funny t...

Some people will find all of these images offensive and possibly arousing. The Sword In The Stone During my 3 months in India, I sent over 90 indecent postcards, got through 3 Kama Sutra Books, 2 books on historical monuments, 5 glue sticks and 3 rolls of Sellotape.   For a country famed for the Kama Sutra and temples so intricately carved with all manor of marvelous sexual endeavors, Indians are frighteningly repressed. Even holding hands is disrespectful/looked down upon. There is no affection, no obvious love. Arranged marriage is the norm and so is finding babies in bushes born out of wedlock. As an Indian woman, your duty is to serve your husband, keep quite, look good and do what you are told ('*@%$**!*') Not something I'm used to. 'Alfresco Pest-o'  A western female traveler is a very curious thing. The only reference and context they have seen woman in is through porn. Apparently that...

India is, to put it bluntly- A shit hole. It's a complete dump. It is a steaming cesspit. Bursting at the seams with the most incredible sights, sounds and smells you can’t even imagine. You just couldn’t make it up- even if you had an amazing imagination you still wouldn’t touch the sides of what India is really like. Beautiful- destructive. Intriguingly terrifying. Vibrant, colorful, FULL ON. Its like everybody in the world is there and they don't give a shit. They'll just have one in front of you. Nothing is hidden.  It is exciting, it is marvelous, it is spontaneous and it is inventive. How it works at all is beyond me- Anything really is possible even if everything is held together by bits of string. Your heart will burst with both the great and the unholy-  India will break you and it will make you.   However much I loved India- 3 months of t he non-stop noise, constant attention and pollution from the entire worlds production line was getting a b...