Charlie Tuesday Gates

Dried out pussy at the Modern Panic exhibtion. The gallery man sent a text which read "The piece formally known as Jordan's Pussy is leaking- It's a little disturbing...what should I do?" Here's the picture that inspired my mind- Uncanny isn't it. I'm going to tell a story about how it came about but it's not going to be very nice so if you like cats you probably won't like this..... One evening in May my mother and I were driving home. Suddenly I started to scream. To my amazement, surprise and despair, there by the side of the road appeared to be the most magnificent feline I had ever seen! Recently hit, the only obviously mark was to the head and a slightly bloodied tong, rigamortis was just setting in and his eyes hadn't gone cloudy yet. He was huge! Someone had obviously loved him very much. But what is the right thing to do................................?  I decided to write a note and say I buried it then quickly bundled the cat int

Three crudely preserved lambs stood silently on garish Astroturf topped plinths for 2 weeks at the recent Modern Panic exhibition. It was rather fittingly at the old abattior in Farringdon. Loads of great artists involved.  SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was better in the flesh and also when penned into their (yet to be made) vitrines. Damien  This poor creature died mysteriously. All was well the night before but the next day he was out cold. No noticeable signs of anything suspicious. After skinning and filling with expanding foam, I sliced him in three and Damien was born.  Expanding foam is pretty volatile stuff. Massive growth like forms erupted from where I snagged the skin. However there was minimal damage and he filled out quite nicely. The amazing thing about Damien is his tail is pre-docked and poor balls are in the middle of being suffocated off. Horny things were just starting to form, leaving two empty circles in his forehead when I cut them out. Half a plastic water bottle rep

Raffle tickets I knocked up for  LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES!   Part of the 4th LIVE D.I.Y taxidermy event Lucky ticket buyers had the chance to win a deer's foot attached to the end is a grater (this foot was found whilst going through the gamery bin, that's where they put them when they get chopped off). 1st prize was a freshly stuffed rabbit and these indervidual collages in nice little frames. http://charlietuesdaygates.blogspot.com/2011/05/diy-taxidermy-with-diesel.html  is where you can read all about it. At the next live taxidermy - ' LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES!' is going to be even better, with even bigger and wilder prizes....  If you couldn't believe your eyes before, you won't have any after this.

Completely forgotten to mention this!  49 Artists plus myself starting 5th June Private view 4th June Rest of the world until the 12th At the old abattoir! How fittings that! The pieces I've included are.... The Lambinator Number 11 Damien Brought together for the first time in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS The Lambinator Also appearing dead 'Jordan's Pussy' but has also been known as '"That's My Cat!" Special thanks to James Elphick All at Guerrilla Zoo, obviously the other artists and the incredible people who really help me out pretty much all of the time. Go here for better artist information: http://www.guerrillazoo.com/modern-panic And then come see the show!

Mind Like Magpie www.mindlikemagpie.com    www.dianajarvisphotography.co. uk   I was deeply nervous for about a week before the show. Crippling sleep loss type stuff. Nerves have never got me before. I just blank it out and don't think about the performance till I’m in it- It's complete spontaneous improvisation. I never know what I'm going to do. I find if you plan things then they go wrong. If you don't then everything is a bonus and surprise. I felt very differently this time. I started to over think, plan and stress about the show and I put a lot of mental pressure on myself. Worrying about what I was going to say- Would I even have anything to talk about? What if I was rubbish? Usual stuff. After a week I decided this was silly and to get over myself.  I always have something to say! The fear was replaced by my normal emotions. I wanted this D.I.Y Taxidermy to have somthing extra . Stuffing animals wasn't enough. Lightening struck a few days before the event

 I used to be a hardcore serial internet dater on and off for about 5 years. I did them all- Plenty of Fish, Guardian Soulmates, E-Harmony, Forget Dinner. I was a massive fan of Gumtree dating but the site got closed down because of all the weirdo's ; ). I used to like taking my dates to the Hunterian Museum (http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums).  Many things have come out of these random experiences-One guy contacted this year but he didn't have that special something. Weeks later he contacted me again saying he was a photographer- yeah right. I decided to believe him and meet him to talk about a doing some potential shoot- the front cover for 'Le Cool'. I decided I was feeling cool and to go ahead and do it. He wanted to go on location to some wasteland in East London. Suspicious. The day of the shoot he came to my garage to collect the stuff. I've never seen anyone gag so much in all my life! Every time he got a whiff he pretty much started to cry. The photo sho

 The beautiful Alix Fox of Bizarre Magazine came to  D.I.Y Taxidermy III- Back From The Dead  and then months later, this showed up in the magazine!  Bizarre Magazine April-May 11 NEXT......... D.I.Y TAXIDERMY IIII TUESDAY 3RD MA Y RED GALLERY 3 Rivington Street- Shoreditch 6-9pm FREE TICKETS CAN BE COLLECTED FROM ANY DIESEL STORE- ask inside for details.... Other news: Taxidermy Workshop I held my first D.I.Y taxidermy workshop last weekend at the Fish Bar Gallery, Dalston.  I am working on the feature film 'BORROWED TIME'- A dark comedy written and directed by Jules Bishop. The workshop was a one off making session/lesson, creating stuffeds to be used in the home of one of the main characters- PHILLIP: A bitter, twisted and lonely old bastard…with only a bizarre collection stuffed animals to keep him company.... This D.I.Y taxidermy crash course took twelve real people inside several squirrels and demonstrated how to stuff them us