Charlie Tuesday Gates

A friend of mine has started work as a 'Lamber'. Basically making sure baby lambs are ok. Lots aren't because they are taken away from their mums at 3 days old. Pretty young but this is usual practice even in 'organic' places. Loads die. Loads and loads- mainly because they are taken away so young or they get special lamb diseases or because they are small and runty. The ones that die get thrown in a giant bin- huge-a massive stinking bin overflowing with baby lives. This giant bin of baby's then gets burnt somewhere secret. These were rescued for me. One is 3 days old and the other just a week. So today I skinned the older one for a future art something. The smaller I have saved for the next live D.I.Y Taxidermy III  It's tummy was all bloated and yuck where it has started to fill with methane gas.That's the smelly stuff. NEVER PEIRCE THE GUT!!!!!  An advert for those animal rights people And here is the lamb without it's body, hu

I've got the notion finally  This was page 42 of Notion Magazine from way back in December. A charming young lady to came to Dicing With Death and then wrote this: So that was nice. Bloody hard to read on here.  Full story p42 http://theenvironment.vfolio.co.uk/notion/68/ ---------------------- I finally have a video from D.I.Y Taxidermy II: Dicing With Death ! It's not here - It still needs uploading...but it's hard technically to understand.... I also have footage of the SURREAL NIGHTMARES installation at SHUNT... but that's even more elusive technically. It's all highly technical. It's my own fault for basically not doing things for myself which I should- Which I am. I brought a memory card and everything.

BIRD HOUSE. I rescued the house from my mothers garden then turned it into a center where freakish birds preyed on other birds, catching them with eggs and sparkles, leaving half eaten bird corpse's to fester in various conditions and states of decay. It was about 9ft high. Pretty massive and really heavy. Bursting with bust up birds. Expedition Popular Culture

After the Excitement of TIME OUT, Christmas and New year were for resting. I did nothing until I got a message from Angela Watrouse, an American writer in London briefly to research the life and work of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter. She got in touch wondering if I would be doing any taxidermy before she left for America and wanted to witness/semi-participate as to effectively write about Potter, to get a true sense of the sensory details-smells, the way the animals feel ect. I wasn't planing on doing anything but sticking to my new years resolution I said yes. The only thing I had was the head of a Stag, shot before Christmas and left in my freezer. Bit of a tricky one for a first timer but might as well start at the deep end. The giant bloody head didn't seem to phase her so after a little bit of explaining about where to cut, I let her rip! We cut along the underside of the chin type area and then worked back from there. You can see where the skin and the muscle are

TIME OUT Christmas issue p24-26 'Charlie Gates is fast becoming on of the UK'S most talked about young artist. ' Notion Magazine, Dec p42 http://theenvironment.vfolio.co.uk/notion/68/ Front cover of Design Week magazine in November   NEXT D.I.Y TAXIDERMY SPRING 2011

Bonjour Here is a selection of photos from D.I.Y Taxidermy II: Dicing With Death , which have only just come to light. Physical writing about the show & event is a few posts below- It was really dark so picture colour not amazing. Salting the wounds What I keep in my suitcases-never borrow one from me Keep Away From Idiots Look What The Stork Brung! It's clearly funny to draw genitals on children Work space Christine Chambers   A real stinker. Lots of people didn't realize that the skins in this were really fresh and completely untreated.....Thus resulting in the hideous stench of death. Little Bow Peep got eaten by sheep Close up from 'Bird House' A Scientist Fox In The Box Well turned out member of the audience having a stab 'Performance space' If anyone has anymore photos from the event please e-mail them to charlietuesdaywinnergates@gmail.com because I haven't taken any...... Love from Charlie Gates x

Next show FREAKS Shoreditch Basement Gallery, Shoreditch Town Hall. Thursday 9th Dec  I've been so massively busy. More busy then ever. Had 3 shows back to back in November; D.I.Y TaxidermyII:Dicing With Death at Counter Culture , Surreal Nightmares at Shunt and then Ishihara 14  at the Queen of Hoxton... and I had to move house as well. Full on. Been working on a music video for MOWGLI- That hip-hop rapper dude. Nice guy. I was given a kitchen to dress. They wanted me to create this macabre taxidermists lair, animals and shit lying around. I made the most disgusting set ever. Proper dark with all the weird stuff I love. The camera man said it was the most impressive set he'd ever seen! Pictures soon. Another production studio borrowed some stuff for a film they were doing. Dinner party gone wrong sort of thing, I couldn't be there but apparently it went well..... And the next and most amazing thing is tomorrow I'm going to TIME OUT to do something for thei