thumb|David Mach - Heavy Metal at Pangolin, London, 2023
thumb|Big Heids, Lanarkshire, a tribute to the steel industry
thumb|Out of Order (1989)
David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines, vicious teddy bears, newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
Early life
Mach was born in 1956 in Methil, Fife. and was appointed Professor of Sculpture in 2000. exhibited outside the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London.
In the early 1980s Mach started to produce some smaller-scale works assembled out of unstruck match sticks. These mostly took the form of human or animalistic heads and masks, like Elvis, and the Big Heids visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Awards and honours
- 1988 Mach was nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London.