Tarsh Bates

I am a transdisciplinary artist/researcher/educator born in Mununjali/Beaudesert, Yugambeh/Queensland. I grew up in Matamata, Aotearoa/New Zealand and lived for 35 years in Perth, Whadjuk Nyungar Boodja/South-Western Australia. I have worked as a pizza delivery driver, a fruit and vegetable stacker, an academic tutor and lecturer, a toilet-paper packer, a compost researcher, a honeybee ejaculator, a specialist literacy tutor, a gallery invigilator, a raspberry picker, a workshop designer and facilitator, an editor, a seamstress, a bookkeeper, a curator, a car detailer, and a life drawing model. I have a Master of Science (Biological Art) and a PhD in Biological Art, both from SymbioticA. I am currently the UmArts Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design and Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Ubmeje/Umeå, Sápmi/northern Sweden where I explore olfaction as queer interspecies communication and ecological memory. I am enamoured with Candida albicans.