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 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland. It is ranked as one of the top schools of art and design in the United Kingdom. History Attempts were made to establish an art scho ...

( Dundee, 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

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and she will be joining the 2021-2023

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Residency Programme. She is a founder and member of the

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and in 2020, joined the

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as a trustee.

Works

* Body of Land: Ritual Manifestations -

Street Level Photoworks A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of di ...

, Glasgow (

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2021) * Scottish Black Lives Matter Mural Trail (Slessor Gardens, Dundee) * These Stories: The Divine Sky at Studio Pavilion,

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(Glasgow,

2021) * Projects 20: The Divine Sky at

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, (Edinburgh Arts Festival 2021) * RESET:

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, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh Arts Festival 2021) * Hypnagogia Glossolalia, Fringe of Colour Films,

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References

Zimbabwean photographers 1989 births Scottish photographers Black people in art Living people