Tanatsei Gambura

Tanatsei Gambura is a new-genres artist and cultural practitioner engaged in translocal research and fieldwork-based activities. She is a longlisted artist for the 2022 Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award and was a commissioned resident at Art Walk Porty, Edinburgh's annual seaside festival. In 2019, Tanatsei received the Diana Award for the work, The 25 May Movement (2016-2020), a social practice intervention exploring culture and community as primary arenas for decolonial work. Her work has had an international reach with exhibitions in Berlin, Ghana, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles.

Tanatsei works primarily across installation, moving image, sound, text, and social practice. In the studio, she is intrigued by the collusion between different concepts, materials, and forms. Drawing from lived experience, she contemplates issues of land, place, and contemporary culture. Tanatsei considers the processes of forgetting and remembering as productive spaces in which violence and trauma can be understood. In both artistic and curatorial capacities, her engagements foreground collaboration and exchange.