Charlie Tuesday Gates

  Tomorrow is your chance to experience life and death first hand. Not for the fainthearted, weak stomached or easily offended. This show come with a WARNING. Sense of humor a must. Charlie Tuesday Gates presents: D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE Throw The Book Away The Book Club Oct 30th 8pm A special treat is coming to The Book Club this Halloween. You won’t be able to believe what your seeing, hearing and eating as the 6th installment of D.I.Y Taxidermy has some surprising and disturbing twists… . WIN  Win real life dead artwork in the bizarre but hilarious raffle:  'LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES!' EAT EAT the discarded remains as an in house chef cooks up a tasty treat during the interval. D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE is an interactive demonstration. Giving first hand knowledge and the confidence to take life into your own hands, proving that you can do it yourself, at home, with little more than the contents of your kitchen cupboards.  Through the med

  Watch 3 minute doc HERE  Urban Outfitters were traipsing round the country looking for interesting content so I let them in my studio/workshop.  They were privi to some wonders of the natural world ...and what fell out of my mouth.  I always get nervous with strangers who come out the blue because you're never sure how much you can say or whats appropriate to reveal in case they think your a nut job or something. Obviously I'm completely normal but I still worry I will go too far and this farness will be used out of context and against me. This didn't happened and I appear to be a nice, well rounded individual who happens to make art out of dead things. And performance- did you know I had a live taxidermy show coming up? Full details can be found on the blog and here: FACEBOOK TICKETS . Love from Charlie Tuesday Gates x

  Thom Morgan I applied for assistance to assist me in the running up to the live D.I.Y Taxidermy show. I was amazed by how many people wanted to help even though they all has proper jobs and real lives. One of the tasks I set was to create a flyer/poster for the upcoming show. Here' are a few offerings: Hannah Prebble   Laura Negus   Tony Hickson   Thom Morgan   Hannah Prebble     Hyun kyung Shin Amazing what other people can do when you put your mind to them! 2 weeks to go. Any help greatly appreciated. TICKETS !

A special treat is coming to The Book Club this Halloween and there's only 1 Month to go….. D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE Throw The Book Away The Book Club Oct 30th 8pm You won’t be able to believe what your seeing, hearing and eating as a D.I.Y.T.6 has some surprising and disturbing twists… . WIN  Win real life dead artwork in the bizarre but hilarious raffle:  'LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES!' EAT EAT the discarded remains as an in house chef cooks up a tasty treat during the interval. D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE is an interactive journey. Giving first hand knowledge and the confidence to take life into your own hands, proving that you can do it yourself, at home, with little more than the contents of your kitchen cupboards.  Through the medium of performance, video and story telling,  you are taken deeper than ever into this seemingly dark art and mind of an artist.   For this night only there will be an exhibition of past and present work. Displaying a

D.I.Y TAXIDERMY 6:   THROW THE BOOK AWAY at  The Book Club  Oct 30th  8pm Bringing together science, intuition and disturbing curiosity, Charlie Tuesday Gates takes an audience through her D.I.Y taxidermy process LIVE     Delivered in a 'shopping channel' style, e mphasis is  heavily  on the D.I.Y aspect with  Gates  giving you handy  hints & tips for using   basic, everyday objects,  where to source  animal   parts legally & personal preservation methods. D emonstrating  that  you really can do it yourself, a t home with just the things you have in your cupboards.  Described as a cross between the shopping channel and Blue Peter, t his performance is a completely unique insight into a seemingly dark art and mind of an artist. Where t he audience are encouraged to participate and generally be involved in the creation of a new artwork. There will be life , there will be death and there most definitely will be PRIZES !!! But the

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 They were

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 promised…..and the dep