Charlie Tuesday Gates

BIOGRAPHY:
Charlie Tuesday Gates creates surreal assemblage sculpture out of the things she finds and collects – including the dead. She has a reputation for unique and challenging sculpture, video and performance art that confronts, questions and challenges issues of morality, ethics and the very nature of controversy itself.

Although she doesn’t classify herself as such, she has been listed as one of the
U.K’s top taxidermists, instrumental in bringing the new wave of taxidermy into the mainstream.
Her pioneering series ‘D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE!’ embraced an entirely new medium of workshops and live demonstrations that simply didn’t exist before. Evolving from a tongue-in-cheek demonstration in 2009, this bizarre mix of performance, improvisation, storytelling, video, puppetry and song is now a sell-out show. Working with audience participation, she skins and stuffs an animal using only the most basic ingredients: salt, sanitary towels and shake n’ vac. Participants can even eat and compete for artwork during the interval and finale of the show.

Her video work uses the medium of 'Animalation', where Gates animates and distorts dead characters, real animals are manipulated by hand to perform, sing and dance.

Her artwo...

Camberwell College of Arts 2005-2008
B.A. Hons Sculpture

Bournemouth Arts Institute 2003-2005
National Diploma in Fine Art

Charlie Tuesday Gates present The Museum House Of Death
The Vaults
Solo show
Waterloo
Private view 22nd
23rd- June


2014
Survival Guides
Art Nouveau, Brixton
Mad About Art: Rowan Arts

MODERN PANIC III
ART CLUB, Red Gallery
D.I.Y Taxidermy 6: Throw The Book Away,The Book Club
Spare Parts: The Rag Factory
Artist Talk:Dalston Darlings W.I, London Fields
Crossroads: Secret Garden
Artist at Talk: Brighton Fashion Week
Live D.I.Y Taxidermy demo: Lost Lectures
Water Under The Moon, Menier Gallery, Southwalk
Solo Exhibitions/Performances 2011
D.I.Y Taxidermy: Corsica studios. Workshop and Performance
D.I.Y TAXIDERMY IIII- LIVE: Red Gallery.
D.I.Y Taxidermy lll: Back From The Dead- LIVE, Future Gallery

Group
Here Is My Heart: Pharmacy of Stories, Netil House- Text
The Big Labowski: Rio Cinema
MODERN PANIC: Gorilla Zoo, The Old Abattoir
Collagerie: Stew Gallery

Talks/ Demonstrations/Workshops
Artist Talk: The Doodle Bar
Lost Boys: Future Cinema, Interactive D.I.Y Taxidermy workshop.
Thrilling Wonder Stories: Artist Talk and D.I.Y Taxidermy demonstration, Architectural Association
Borrowed Time: In association with BBC Film & Film London, D.I.Y Taxidermy workshop
*Prop making workshop for th...