Tia Bates is working towards waxing cinema; to reveal and expand upon understandings of experience. She works in multi-scale on sculpture and installation works with light, beeswax, and cinematic objects. She sculpts with cinematic light to foster the intimate ‘touch’ of filmic image on the human body and the space inhabited in between. In the darkness of the cavernous movie house, light grows and affects, drawing in, with the desire to capture and stick, to linger in the mind, and stay in the head.

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Tia is a current MFA candidate at Western University (expected August 2025). In 2024, she was awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters. Her thesis exhibition will be installed at McIntosh Gallery July 28 – September 6, 2025.