MENTORING

Amaal will be mentored by:

  • Sola Olulode is a British Nigerian artist living and working in South London. She received a BA in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton in 2018. Upon graduation she took part in the notable graduate show BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show. 2018. She then went on to receive a graduate studio residency at Lewisham Art House for a year in London.

    Since then, she has exhibited in numerous international group solo exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include solos: I’ve Got To Know You Now We May Never Meet Again Lawrie Shabibi. Dubai, 2025; Islands of the Blessed at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, 2024 and Could You Be Love, Sapar Contemporary, New York, 2022. Selected group shows include Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. DC, USA, 2026; Queer Love, Stephen Friedman, New York, 2025; Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2024, Keeping Time, Gallery 1957, Accra, 2024; Dreaming of Home Leslie, Lohman Museum, New York, 2023; To Be Held at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, 2023; Womxn Of Colour Art Award 2020-2021 Finalists Exhibition: Altitude 198 Contemporary Arts, London, 2021; Victoria Miro x Out Collective, Vortic, 2021, An Infinity of Traces, Lisson Gallery, London, 2021; In Heavenly Blue Wunika Mukan, Lagos, 2022. She has been featured in ID Magazine, Art Review and Readers Digest and featured on the Hayward Gallery Billboard April 2024-2025.

AMAAL KEBABTI

Amaal Kebabti is a Glasgow-based contemporary abstract artist of Algerian heritage. Self-taught, she works primarily with acrylics and mixed media, creating richly layered, tactile paintings that explore colour, movement, and emotional atmosphere.

Drawing from her Mediterranean and North African roots alongside her life in Scotland, her practice blends warmth, depth, and intuitive mark-making. Amaal's work is sought after for private collections, charity auctions, and interior settings, where her paintings function as statement pieces designed to bring presence, harmony, and visual impact to space.

  • Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist, film-maker and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary. Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising body paint and muted lighting to create images that appear to emerge from darkness. 

    In recent works, she expands to incorporate other media and approaches that evoke that which is invisible and undocumented. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, dreaming and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing against contexts of colonialism and loss. 

    Seka’s most recent film work titled Svikiro is currently being exhibited in a group show titled Undone with the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 60th La Biennale di Venezia. 

    Sekai’s film titled Hypnagogia Glossolalia has been exhibited in a year-long group show titled Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers at Zeitz MOCCA in Cape Town, 26 October 2023 – 13 October 2024 

    She had a solo show in December 2022 with Sakhile & Me Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany where she returned in August 2023 and exhibited in a group exhibition titled; x Mundane x Sacred x Profane. 

    In September 2023, Machache debuted a new film and exhibition, Svikiro at Mount Stuart Estate, Isle of Bute. 

    You can find her work and a review of The Divine Sky project in the Summer issue (no.35) of Scottish Art News with the Fleming Collection, who recently acquired her series Light/Deep Divine Sky which was showcased alongside other works including Lively Blue tapestry, Dovecot Studios for the Edinburgh Arts Festival 250 Years of Women in the Arts, May 2023 – January 2024 

    Artist Statement: 

    My work has been developed through a process of self-initiation. An initiation through the notion of a 'Self' that is both constructed and mutable. I use the term 'Initiation' as an analogy for the ongoing process of uncovering, recovering and reconnecting to ancestral systems of knowledge. These systems of knowledge are derived from dreaming, visioning and embodied practices that include ritual, performance and storytelling. They can be located within the sense memory of the body and mind of any individual or collective body and comprise familial, cultural and spiritual inheritances. 

    In recent years I’ve created immersive projects that aim to elucidate these conceptual concerns while showcasing the scope and diversity of my practice. These projects are multi-layered, dynamic, and engaging and aim to demystify the process of making to reveal the nature of creativity as inherently fluid, open and collaborative.