Charlie Tuesday Gates

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's a fact and any item of clothing that even suggests t

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 bit

2012 was a good year. Here's loads of the best things that happened:   Beginning the year with a new studio, I had the perfect place to work and create. Inviting the public into my private space and holding taxidermy workshops where people could learn the very basics in a relaxed atmosphere. In my secret room I was able to create without causing a scene. However there were many scenes.      On Easter Sunday my work made it into the Independent and my dream came true when I was featured in The Metro as well as Time Out, Design Week and many other big players. 2012 saw me working with stylists, art direction, doing artist talks and creating some of my most macabre sculptures, controversial video and performances pieces. Mind Like Magpie   As well as carving up the dead, I also make beautiful fashion accessories and I was asked to do a talk at Brighton Fashion Week. These can be found at   www.mindlikemagpie.com .and http://www.facebook.com/mindlikemagpie

URGENT : Have you seen this Pussycat? Last seen 31st Oct at The Book Club, Shoreditch Very important as she was supposed to be in the show MODERN PANIC III Any information please contact me. I also have some work in Art Club   Sunday 18th November, Red Gallery, Shoreditch  I'll be exhibiting paintings and one String Chicken.

D.I.Y Taxidermy 6: Throw The Book Away  was  FULL ON A taxidermy show to blow others out the water. A comedy, a tragedy....  Thought provoking, bold, completely sick but utterly compelling. A performance that encompassed video, storytelling, demonstration and improvisation mixed together with audience participation. A darkly enthralling performance that would test even the strongest of constitutions and consciences as I released insanity to epic proportions. Things people have genuinely never seen, thought, felt or smelt before. I got down, I got dirty and showed parts of myself usually reserved for behind closed doors.... and certainly not for closed minds. Tonight was the night I blasted them open We blasted them open with this: LIVE ANIMALATION 'LIVE ANIMALATION' Definition: The use of real animals in animation. Animating animals- real animals.  Stop frame animation was the next stop. Mark Arrigo was my man in control of the camer