Tarsh Bates

Tarsh Bates is currently a student at UWA – undertaking SymbioticA’s Master of Science (Biological Art).  Tarsh is interested in corporeal feminism and embodiment, in autobiography, and in the body as material and as a site of intervention. Her art practice is concerned with  representations of the reproductive body in art and science, and in the physical, emotional and ethical consequences of reproductive decision-making and technologies. She has explored these concepts through textiles, sculpture, performance and glasswork. Tarsh has a background in biotechnology and environmental science. She worked as a researcher in compost science and waste management and is currently working in honeybee reproduction research.  She is particularly interested in modes of communicating from the positions of art and biology.