Five more Years Of Hell

It goes without saying that I hate the Conservative government, I've always believed that if a person doesn't respect animals in turn you can't expect any respect out of them for humans either.

These terrible people are now in charge yet again ( god knows how) and the decent people of the world have a huge fight on our hands!

It goes without saying that I am not a person who holds any kind of position of power, but as an artist I can use my art to fight and make people aware of the scumbags we are dealing with!

What can we expect of a man who wants to bring back hunting , has condoned the killing of thousands of beautiful and innocent badgers,,, well we can expect no respect for the rights of humans either,,,

I had to do this illustration out of sheer anger. The tory government have never brought good news to anyone other than the arrogant super rich! who don't care about anyone but themselves and their bigoted views

F you Cameron !

The decent people won't put up with you and we will fight you in any way we can, (even if that is just by spreading the word through art)

Reviews from Mothers Ruin performance

Haus of Fhag

Charlotte Victoria Furness, the sailorwench-cum-bundle of wool (she wore a home-knitted wig. Obviously) performed a handful of enchanting but slightly unsettling songs, including a love song for her GBF and a ditty about harbouring a secret pregnancy. Her contrast between innocence (with Beanie Babies pinned to her dress) and slight mania gave her songs that slight sprinkling of crazy that edged them away from being cute and straying more into the realms of fascinating discomfort. 

So so gay magazine

Our first act of the evening was the splendid Charlotte Victoria Furness, bedecked in her home knitted red beehive wig and sailor get-up, complete with sewn-on stuffed animals. Performing with her ukulele, she gave us a whistle-stop tour of her recent love life, from a pregnancy kept from a soon to be ex, to falling in love with a ‘Friend of Dorothy’.  What sounds like a fairly uncomfortable few minutes of listening was quite the opposite, largely due to Furness’ charm and dry wit that shone through in her lyrics.

Brian Gorman

The public review

Highlights included Charlotte Victoria Furness, a charming young lady who came across as a gentle mix of Victoria Wood, Sarah Millican, and Morrissey. Although the themes were pretty familiar – the pursuit of a nice man, weight issues, etc – they were explored with genuine wit, warmth, and alluring self-deprecation. The odd rude remark about semen being a little at odds with the rest of her material – one suspects inserted for this particular audience.

Clouds

Wowser three charlotte Victoria's , Christmas and birthday all at once !

The B hive blues By charlotte Victoria

What an act!

Charlotte Victoria, as a slightly more exaggerated version of herself, brings you original songs on her ukulele, songs from the sea, songs of bee hives and betrayal, songs of Christmas dinosaurs and Vincent price. Aiming to bring a smile to your face through comical songs and light hearted ukulele strums,, oh did I mention elaborate costumes? just in case you hadn't noticed .

What's the Point?

Ta da!

At first I wasn't completely happy with the look of this piece , I often have a set image in my head and if that isn't achieved I'm not a happy bunny, however, once I added sound to the video it seemed to immediately grow on me, sometimes accidents can be a very happy thing.

Introducing Helga Von Sharpentaffle

just a few teaser stills from my latest video project.
I have been experimenting with camera trickery in my new film about Helga Von Sharpentaffle, a performer made entirely from pencils and pencil shavings,, how far will Helga go to make herself the prettiest clown in town?

you will soon find out


Helga Von Sharpentaffle.  was a renowned clown in 1930's Berlin, unfortunately she was sent to Dachau for her flagrant lesbianism and wilful mockery of the third Reich

Dewsbury Park museum (crow nest park exhibition. 'Don't do it Mother!')

 

The work for the museum was loosely based on Eileen Fenton Dewsbury's own channel swimmer.

I took the fun and colour found in Bamforths postcards and added another comical slant onto the quintessential British seaside holiday and the comical things that might occur when there is a lot of goose fat involved , or in this case , a fat goose.

 

I wanted people who came to the museum to be able to dress up and play with my work, hence the masks, visitors can dress as the channel swimmer within my work (aka me ) and just have fun. 

Welcome the mechanical show girls of the Doll house cabaret

Here they are the automata of the doll house Cabaret,

Feline and Furness full colour

More stills from the doll house.

Tumbles,Twirls and Flips

 

 

Tumbles twirls and flips.

 

How could anyone possibly resist?

 

 

fun postcard set (seaside postcards)

well I have finally finished my set of 12 seaside postcards.

I'm extremely proud of them and think they have helped me develop a much more fun and comical way of working.
      Melancholy work can be beautiful, but I don't feel the need to make it any more, I may re visit it in time but for now , jolly bright and comical is the way forward.

the set will be displayed at Dewsbury Park museum in crows nest park.

sets are also available for purchase directly from me.

oh you naughy dogs

cheeky,cheeky,cheeky!

 

Ollie and Daisy dog star in my latest postcard.

Bessie Levit's Lovely Lips

Behind the Curtain

This short documentry has spent years in a dusty archive in Bavaria guarded by wolves. Thanks to the Charlotte Victoria estate we have been granted permission to bring the decadence and laughter of the renowned doll house cabaret to life once more for your pleasure.

Oh Hattie

Smile

 

continuing the theme of forced smiles

The doll house hall of fame gallery

        I decided to play around a little more with my existing image. In my film work I have decided to manipulate space and experient with close ups, this is an extention of that concept