Gabrielle Bates is an Australian artist who creates socially engaged, site‑responsive, and movement‑based artworks that unfold across regional NSW, Sydney, and Asia. Her projects take the form of sensory encounters, participatory rituals, and collaborative performances shaped by the specific people, places, and ecologies she works with. Re‑enchantment sits at the heart of her practice. Gabrielle works to renew intimate relationships with the more‑than‑human world, using gesture, collective participation, and embodied attention to reveal the subtle, often invisible entanglements between people, land, memory, and place. She has over 9 years of experience working in the Australian wine industry, from guided tastings to sales and customer service.
Recent large‑scale works include SCRUM for Cementa24 and multiple iterations of Building Song for Bondi Pavilion, The Foundations Portland, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, and Five Eliza, alongside participatory works such as Night Commons, The Unknowns, Dub Circle, Sleep Walkers. She has also presented solo exhibitions in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, and Sydney.