About David Mach
Born 1956. David Mach is a British artist, sculptor and installation artist.
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. 1992 Winner of the Lord Provost's Prize for Services to the Visual Arts in Glasgow.
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Who is David Mach?
British artist (born 1956)
When was David Mach born?
David Mach was born on 18 March 1956 in Methil.
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David Mach is an artist, sculptor and installation artist.
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David Mach is British.
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