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Mach David
David MACH
Born in 1956 in Methil, Scotland.
Lives and works in London.
At the beginning of the 80's, David Mach becomes a recognized and famous artist, exhibited in museums worldwide, thanks to his monumental sculptures, ephemeral constructions realized out of massive quantities of identical industrial surpluses.
Parallel to his monumental tires or newspapers installations, David Mach also manipulates with a great talent, more delicate materials such as matches, assembling them in human or animal masks, or coat hangers, as demonstrate the impressive busts His n'Hers, created in 1999, and The Spaceman, presented in 2000 in Paris and in The Hague.
In October 2006, one of the highlights of the monumental sculptures shown in the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris, during the FIAC was It takes two, made of two giant Sumos and one container.
David Mach lives and works in London with his wife Lesley.
1956
Born in Methil, Fife (Scotland).
1974/79
Studies at the Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.
1975
Pat Holmes Memorial Award.
1976/78
Travels abroad within the Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship, thenwithin some SED minor and major travelling scholarships.
1979/82
Studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London.
1982
Drawing Prize of RCA.
1988
Nomination for the Turner Award, Tate Gallery, London.
1989/91
Contributor in the Contemporary Art Summer Seminar, Kitakyushu.
1992
Lord Provost Award, RGI, Glasgow.
1994/97
Commissioned by Darlington Borough Council, Northern Arts (U.K) and Wm Morrison Supermarkets for a large-scale sculpture, entitled Train, settled up on the site of Darlington, to commemorate the first British railway. With its 40 m long, Train is the biggest outdoor sculptureever realized in England, and was unveiled on June 24, 1997.
First personal exhibition entiled The last Detail at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
1998
David Mach is elected Member of The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He isselected to participate in the M8 Project, consisting in monumental sculpture installations along the M8 highway, connecting Glasgow to Edinburgh. Solo exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA.
1999
David Mach unveils his monumental sculptures Lanark I, Lanark II and Lanark III along the M8 Highway. Presentation of His n’Hers, two wide coat hangers busts, in The Hague within the outdoors show Den Haag Sculptuur. Realizes a monumental collage-mural of more than 75 meters long, commemorating the XXth century for the millennium celebrations at the Millennium Dome, in London.
2000
Presentation of Spaceman, a wide coat hangers sculpture almost 2.50 meters high, within the exhibition L’Homme qui Marchein the Gardens of the Palais Royal, Paris, and then within the newedition of the outdoor exhibition Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague.
Second exhibition solely devoted to his sculpture at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
Appointed Professor of Sculpture, Royal Academy, London.
2002
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Dundee.
2003
Third personal exhibition at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
2004
Made Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
First Visiting Professor of Inspiration and Discovery at University of Dundee (Scottland).
2007
In Seine, tarpaulin based on a collage realised with the support of the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont for the National opera of Paris, front of Palais Garnier.
New personnal exhibition at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
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