Sekai Machache

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Sekai Machache
Born1989
Harare, Zimbabwe
Alma materDuncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
OccupationVisual Artist
AwardsRoyal Scottish Academy Morton Award
Website http://sekaimachache.com/

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]

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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]

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