Sculptor whose grandfather was the sculptor Harry Bates. Born in Eltham, Kent, he was educated at Harrow School, then studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1947–51, and with Ossip Zadkine in Paris, in 1952, in his private studio at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Later taught at Hornsey College of Art. Bates exhibited at RBA and Salon de la Jeune Sculpture in Paris, having one-man show at Waddington Gallery in 1959. In addition to being awarded an Arts Council Prize in The Unknown Political Prisoner competition in 1953, he was granted a prize by the international jury when chosen to represent Great Britain. Bates’ work is in the collections of the Arts Council, Victoria & Albert Museum and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. His sculptures created powerful silhouettes rather than being three-dimensional objects, and Bates commented that it is “the unexpected and apparently illogical form in nature which concerns me”.