Sekai Machache is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Machache is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Working with a wide range of media, including photography, her practice is formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising body paint and muted lighting conditions to create images that appear to emerge from darkness. Machache is the recipient of the 2020 RSA Morton Award and is currently participating in the 2021-2013 Talbot Rice Residency Programme. She works internationally and often works collaboratively, for and within her community, and is a founding and organising member of the Yon Afro Collective as well as a Board Member at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Machache’s most recent work took her to Brazil, where she produced a cross-cultural project supported by the British Council & Creative Scotland partnership.