Sekai Machache
{{Short description|Scottish artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sekai Machache
| native_name_lang = Shona
| birth_date = 1989
| birth_place = Harare, Zimbabwe
| alma_mater = Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
| occupation = Visual Artist
| awards = Royal 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.{{Cite web|date=2020-09-30|title=RSA Announces Its Artist Support Awards For 2020 {{!}} Artmag {{!}} All The Arts In Scotland|url=https://artmag.co.uk/rsa-announces-its-artist-support-awards-for-2020/|access-date=2021-10-06|language=en-GB}}
Biography
Sekai Machache was born in 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe.{{Cite web|title=Ones to watch in 2021: Sekai Machache, artist|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/art/ones-watch-2021-sekai-machache-artist-3083356|access-date=2021-10-06|website=www.scotsman.com|language=en}} In 2012, Machache graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (Dundee, Scotland).{{Cite web|date=2020-10-26|title=Many Voices Q&A with Sekai Machache|url=https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/10/26/many-voices-qa-with-sekai-machache/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=Bella Caledonia|language=en-GB}} 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. Between 2021 and 2023 she participated in the Talbot Rice Gallery Residency Programme.{{Cite web|title=Talbot Rice Residents {{!}} Talbot Rice Gallery|url=https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/residents-1|access-date=2021-10-10|website=www.trg.ed.ac.uk}}{{Cite web|title=Sekai Machache {{!}} Talbot Rice Gallery|url=https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/resident/sekai-machache|access-date=2021-10-06|website=www.trg.ed.ac.uk}} She is a founder and member of the Yon Afro Collective and in 2020, joined the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as a trustee.{{Cite web|date=2020-11-19|title=ESW Welcomes New Board Members|url=https://edinburghsculpture.org/news-featured/esw-welcomes-new-board-members/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop|language=en-us}}
Works
- Body of Land: Ritual Manifestations - Street Level Photoworks,{{Cite web|title=Aesthetica Magazine - Cosmic Reflections|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/cosmic-reflections/|access-date=2021-10-10|website=Aesthetica Magazine|language=en-GB}} Glasgow (Glasgow International Festival 2021){{Cite web|date=2021-10-06|title=Glasgow International Stands to Attention {{!}} Ocula Feature|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/features/glasgow-international-stands-to-attention/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=ocula.com|language=en}}
- 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){{Cite web|date=2020-02-27|title=Sekai Machache: 'As artists we have the space to consciously create new narratives that can catalyse a process of healing'|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/114693-sekai-machache-as-artists-we-have-the-space-to-consciously-create-new-narratives-that-can-catalyse-a-process-of-healing/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=The List|language=en-GB}}
- Projects 20: The Divine Sky at Stills Gallery, (Edinburgh Art Festival 2021){{Cite web|title=Projects 20 {{!}} Sekai Machache|url=https://stills.org/exhibitions/projects-20-sekai-machache/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=Stills|language=en-GB}}
- RESET: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh Art Festival 2021){{Cite news|last=Davies|first=Ashley|title=Edinburgh Art Festival — sounds and vision, all across the city|newspaper=The Times |language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/edinburgh-art-festival-best-what-to-watch-sounds-vision-n9xhc9gw2|access-date=2021-10-06|issn=0140-0460}}
- Hypnagogia Glossolalia, Fringe of Colour Films, Edinburgh Art Festival 2021{{Cite web|title=Festival review: Fringe of Colour|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/festival-review-fringe-of-colour-3336313|access-date=2021-10-06|website=www.scotsman.com|language=en}}