Charlie Tuesday Gates

Photos by James Stroud This Photogrpher asked to do a shoot in my old studio. http://www.james-stroud.co.uk/

This was my first and last performance entitled 'D.I.Y Taxidermy' When I first conceived the idea of live taxidermy...I felt a little bit weird. Was this right? Was this a good idea? The more I thought about it the easier it was to stomach. I had only ever half skinned a fox before so the thought of skinning animals in front of a live audience was daunting-espically as I had no real clue what I was doing. I decided not to think about it and let the magic happen spontaneously.  The first thing I did was get out the 'pickled rat' (for more information of the rat see a previous blog). This rat had been sitting in it's own bloody vodka juice for well over 6 months. Pulled out by it's tail, I then proceeded to ring it out so all the rat juice dripped away- I then poured shots of blood rat dirt water- no one drunk it.   The rest was more like a D.I.Y cooking show, done in a relaxed style where I would rabbit on about this and that, explaining where and how I came ac

rabt@rabphoto.com D.I.Y.TAXIDERMY Private View: Thursday June 3rd  The Nunnery 7-9pm 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ Gallery opening times:10-6 Fri Sat Sun Bringing together science, intuition and disturbing curiosity, Charlie Tuesday Gates will be preparing and treating animals you have grown to know and love in a D.I.Y style. But there is far more to see than experimental taxidermy! B.Y.O road kill and you coukld end up taking a piece of the magic home with you. Love from Charlie Gates x http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120174398021053&ref=mf http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Charlie+Gates/104092.html Love from Charlie Gates x This is where the Terradactyl's live. Much amazing thanks to Robin Turner for taking these photos. rabt@rabtphoto.com

TIT'S ON A HORSE (There is some mild explanation for this somewhere in the blog) Shots from the candlelit exhibition.... you can't actually really see anything, but it looked bloody beautiful. You would be walking around in the dark, and all of a sudden things would appear in front of you strangely. This is not going to be here for long as it's sat on an Olympic goldmine looked after by the Russian Mafia, so come and have a look before it is gone forever!

Here is a review of "I'm Thinking Something Stranger" http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/lowri-257/im-thinking-of-something-stranger-2010/ The show is a till open- anyone interested in coming down then give me a ring- Please don't just turn up otherwise you might get shot for trespassing 07508572978 Love from Charlie Gates x

My laptop broke so I've been trawling through old e-mails trying to find pictures of work that still exists. Here is an existing image of  'KEEP AWAY FROM IDIOTS' Unusually the sculpture still exists too. This one sadly doesn't.... One Step Ahead It was amazing in real life- Inside the head bustling with butterflies and popery.All found objects. Mostly. Everything fitted so bloody perfectly-It was perfect. One day I arrived at college to find it broken. No note, no apology, no answer. In a desperate bid for the truth, I threatened everyone I saw.... but no one had answers, no one had seen or heard anything. I was supposed to learn a lesson from this: Be more careful and do things properly. Naughty Baby Long Fingers  Baby's walking round on their elongated fingers acept they didn't actually move....but if they did...

Tits on a Horse Sorry, I just thought that was funny because it's an antler, and antlers are from deers not horses. This photo was taken by Luke Burke, thanks Luke. I've decided to try and make an exhibition of all this work sometime in January. It seems silly not to. I can try and make it fun and not uncomfortable or embarrassing. Candle light seems like the best idea. Like this but better. I'll even move stuff around and try my hand at curation. I went to the village pub and guess what they had hanging round the back for me?Only about 20 pheasants- 20 whole pheasants with wings and heads and everything else pretty much apart from the meat! But I'm a vegetarian anyway so that doesn't matter. I watched a taxidermy video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8CUpcO5WLA