Sekai Machache

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
Born	1989 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]