Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator who lives in
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
, 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
Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
, Zimbabwe.
In 2012, Machache graduated from the
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (
Dundee, Scotland). In 2020, she received the Morton Award for an artist working in lens-based media, presented by the
Royal Scottish Academy.
In the same year, her work featured in the
Scottish Black Lives Matter Mural Trail and she will be joining the 2021-2023
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
The House for an Art Lover is a building constructed between 1989 and 1996 and based on a 1901 design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh with his wife, Margaret MacDonald. The building is situated in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland and sits e ...
(Glasgow,
Glasgow International Festival 2021)
* Projects 20: The Divine Sky at
Stills Gallery, (Edinburgh Arts Festival 2021)
* RESET:
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh Arts Festival 2021)
* Hypnagogia Glossolalia,
Fringe of Colour Films,
Edinburgh Art Festival
The Edinburgh Art Festival is an annual visual arts festival, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, during August and coincides with the Edinburgh International and Fringe festivals. The Art Festival was established in 2004, and receives public funding fr ...
2021
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References
Zimbabwean photographers
1989 births
Scottish photographers
Black people in art
Living people