Gabrielle Bates (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist with over 30 years of experience in the arts. She works across different creative platforms, including painting and performance, to investigate the political and supernatural thresholds of places and their communities. Questions of ownership, agency and collaboration are at the core of her socially engaged art practice, in which she creates conditions for different groups to negotiate with each other, places, buildings and materials to develop performative outcomes. Gabrielle has worked with children, young people, artists, activists, performers, choirs and event management teams to successfully produce projects with dynamic and emotionally charged outcomes. She is the founder of ongoing groups and projects including Tree Shriners, Sleep Walkers, Dub Circle, The Unknowns, and Building Song. Gabrielle’s art works and projects have been commissioned by LGAs including Inner West Council, North Sydney Council, Willoughby City Council and Bankstown City Council, and her art works have been selected for Australian award exhibitions including the Bowness Photography Prize (2021), Linden Postcard prize (2019), Fishers Ghost Prize (2019, 2023), Blacktown Art Prize (2018), Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2018), and Portia Geach Prize for Portraiture (2006). In 2022, Gabrielle relocated from Gadigal Land, Sydney to Wiradjuri Land, Kandos, regional NSW, where she facilitates Cementa’s Uncooperative Youth Arts Program while continuing her own private art practice and community collaborations.