DAVID MACH By Jack Haxley BIOGRAPHY David Mach was born in a town - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
DAVID MACH By Jack Haxley BIOGRAPHY David Mach was born in a town called Methil on the eastern coast of Scotland on the 18 th of March 1956. He is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist, mainly known for his work with coat
By Jack Haxley
David Mach was born in a town called Methil on the eastern coast of Scotland on the 18th of March 1956. He is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist, mainly known for his work with coat hangers and match heads, although he is known to work with many more mass produced objects. Many of his installations are temporary and often constructed in public places.
This piece is called the Zurich Gorilla, it is made out
David’s work extremely interesting, his style is very unique.
This is a dramatic sculpture of Jesus on the cross, it was put on display in Southwark Cathedral The dramatic sculpture was made from 3,000 coat hangers with the hooks straightened so they appear to be sticking out of the body.
Charlie Chaplin Gandhi Blue Betty Sabre Tooth Tiger David Mach was not only famous for his coat hanger sculptures, but he also did amazing work using colour matchstick
created many different characters and people, including Charlie Chaplin, Betty Boop and many more.
David Mach liked to open his exhibitions by setting his match head work on fire, but despite the hours of work he put into them, he claims not to be destroying his art, but creating new art. ‘You lose the colour but you different shades of ash, different greys and blacks. It’s a real ferocious act of
what you get is another thing.’
David Mach created this enormous Gorilla, it was put
the V&A exhibition ‘Power of Making’. The first thing I notice about this sculpture is the scale and detail, standing nearly 10feet tall, this towers
detail put into this is amazing, to be able to create this kind
photograph (or maybe multiple photos) of a gorilla which was then recreated into this sculpture. If you look closely enough at this piece, you can see the lines from the coat hangers, but from a distance it looks like all one piece with hooks sticking
David Mach did other things aside from coat hanger and matchstick sculptures, as seen here in his sculpture he named “Train”, which was created in 1997 and is placed along in A66 in Darlington. It is made with 185,000 local “Accrington Nori” bricks and it commemorates Darlington’s heritage as “home
people 21 weeks to create this sculpture, and even includes 20 special “bat” bricks to encourage bats to nest there.