Sekai Machache
Scottish artist
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Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator who lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and works internationally. She works primarily in photography and seeks to interrogate the notion of self.[1]
Sekai Machache | |
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| Born | 1989 (age 36–37) Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Alma mater | Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design |
| Occupation | Visual Artist |
| Awards | Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award |
| Website | http://sekaimachache.com/ |
Biography
Sekai Machache was born in 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe.[2] In 2012, Machache graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (Dundee, Scotland).[3] In 2020, she received the Morton Award for an artist working in lens-based media, presented by the Royal Scottish Academy.[1] In the same year, her work featured in the Scottish Black Lives Matter Mural Trail. Between 2021 and 2023 she participated in the Talbot Rice Gallery Residency Programme.[4][5] She is a founder and member of the Yon Afro Collective and in 2020, joined the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as a trustee.[6]
Works
- Body of Land: Ritual Manifestations - Street Level Photoworks,[7] Glasgow (Glasgow International Festival 2021)[8]
- Scottish Black Lives Matter Mural Trail (Slessor Gardens, Dundee)[2]
- These Stories: The Divine Sky at Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover (Glasgow, Glasgow International Festival 2021)[9]
- Projects 20: The Divine Sky at Stills Gallery, (Edinburgh Art Festival 2021)[10]
- RESET: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh Art Festival 2021)[11]
- Hypnagogia Glossolalia, Fringe of Colour Films, Edinburgh Art Festival 2021[12]