Mach's practice is concerned by the assemblage of familiar, mass-produced objects which usually exist to serve someother purpose. The materials frequented by Mach include matches, tires, dominoes, scrabble pieces, fibreglass and coat hangers to create vivid and colourful sculptures that convey a delicacy and refinement. According to Mach, a sculpture just about encompasses everything; "a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad can be a sculpture, a dance, a performance, a film, a video- all of these kinds of art and many more can be sculpture". Using these unusual materials taken from everyday life, he creates figurative sculptures of the human body, head, animals, or even recognizable faces from politics and contemporary culture.
Read MoreMach's first solo exhibition in 1982 was held at the Lisson Gallery, London. His international reputation was quickly established with group and solo exhibitions in the United Kingdom and in countries throughout the world. A lot of his work is comission-based, such as Collage Portrait of Glasgow, commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, which was unveiled in March 2002 as part of a solo exhibition of his work at the Gallery of Modern Art, in Glasgow.
Born in March 1956 in Mthil, Scotland, David March attended the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from 1974 to 1979. He went on to attend the Royal College of Art where he graduated in 1982 with the RCA Drawing prize. In 1988 he was nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery. He was a part-time lecturer in the Sculpture School at Kingston University in 1982 and was a lecturer at the Contemporary Art Summer School at Kitakushu in Japan from 1987 to 1991. In 1998 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and in 2000 he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He became a Honourary Doctor of Laws at the University of Dundee and was made an Honourary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2004. He was elected to the board of the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
