Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator who lives in

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, Scotland, and works internationally. She works primarily in photography and seeks to interrogate the notion of self.

Biography

Sekai Machache was born in 1989 in

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, Zimbabwe. In 2012, Machache graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (

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, Scotland). In 2020, she received the Morton Award for an artist working in lens-based media, presented by the

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. 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. She is a founder and member of the Yon Afro Collective and in 2020, joined the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as a trustee.

Works

* Body of Land: Ritual Manifestations - Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow ( Glasgow International Festival 2021) * Scottish Black Lives Matter Mural Trail (Slessor Gardens, Dundee) * These Stories: The Divine Sky at Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover (Glasgow, Glasgow International Festival 2021) * Projects 20: The Divine Sky at Stills Gallery, (

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2021) * RESET: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh Art Festival 2021) * Hypnagogia Glossolalia, Fringe of Colour Films,

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References

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