Bio

Zachary Kai is an artist, writer, and zinemaker, and an avowed generalist. He works across collage, drawing, photography, portraiture, and zines, and his work is about containing multitudes: how one person carries many places, practices, and people at once.

Born and raised on Koori Country in north-west Victoria, Zachary has since lived across Australia and travelled through 16 countries, from Japan and Thailand to Mexico, Kosovo, and the Netherlands. Everywhere he goes, he makes things with what's at hand: cut paper and glue, ink and marker, a camera, yarn and found wood.

His collages layer printed images, hand-drawn pattern, and found text into small, dense pieces, usually bright with turquoise, orange, pink, and green. Alongside them sit drawings on paper, digital portrait studies, vector art, and gods' eyes woven from yarn and found sticks. Since 2020, he's also been posting letters, art, and ephemera to strangers, and some of his dearest friends began as penpals.

In 2019, Zachary founded Lunaseeker Press, a queer independent press for creative non-fiction, space fantasy, and zines. He's written, designed, and printed more than a dozen zines, from mini-zines to quarter-size, and sold them from his own stall at a regional zine and art fair. He's also the author of The Mara Files, a space opera adventure trilogy.

His writing has been featured in Bold Magazine, Dense Discovery, Stark Reflections, and on The Rebel Author Podcast.

Zachary has crewed backstage on six theatre productions, building sets, making props, and running sound. He knits, gardens, cooks from whatever's in the pantry, and keeps a sprawling personal website, which he calls his archived existence.

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