Charlietuesday

Charlietuesday

Gates has a fascination with old, discarded objects and of collecting... Even collecting the dead. Digging things out the ground, scraping road kill off the streets of London, practising D.I.Y taxidermy.
She opens creatures up to reveal their internal worlds, experimenting with preservation, manipulating the decay process using techniques like salt, gloss and shake’n’vac.
With what is left she creates macabre sculptures, involving other found and meticulously arranged objects, placed into bizarre surreal assemblages. Creating Freakish characters, a metamorphosis of their discarded lives.
 Dark humour twists the natural with the artificial. Beauty and death collide with nostalgia and borderline insanity. Provocative, uncomfortable but intriguing.

Exhibitions

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

Bournemouth Arts Institute 2003-2005
National Diploma in Fine Art

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions 2010
D.I.Y Taxidermy II: Dicing With Death
D.I.Y Taxidermy: The Nunnery, The Bow Arts Trust
I'm Thinking Something Stranger, Bow

Group Exhibitions 2010
FREAKS: Shoreditch
Counter Culture: London Bridge
Crossroads: Secret Garden
WW3: The Place Prize,
Ishihara 12: The Book Club
El Ray: Waterloo
A Moving Exhibition. 10 Gale Gallery, Bethnal Green
Fishtank: Queen of Hoxton
This is what it is: ArtEvict- East London

2009
Ishihara 1 year Birthday
Tales That Wittiness Madness: The Elevator Gallery
CrabWolf: The Queen of Hoxton
Ishihara 10:Sixty Million Postcards
Mink Schmink: Wilson Williams Gallery

2008
About The Size of a Small Cat: Supine Studios
Ishihara: Sixty Million Postcards
Five Years Gallery: Regent Studios
2nd Place: Area 10
Cows Under No Title: Tottenham Court Squat