1956 Born Methil, Fife, Scotland
1974 - 79 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1975 Pat Holmes Memorial Prize
1976 Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship
1977 SED Minor Travelling Scholarship
1978 SED Major Travelling Scholarship
1979 - 82 Royal College of Art, London
1982 RCA Drawing Prize
1988 Nominated for Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1992 Won Lord Provost's Prize, RGI, Glasgow
1998 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
1999 Honorary Professor, Sculpture Dept. Edinburgh College of Art
2000 Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Parc de Mer
The Parc de Meer project is on the site of the old Ajax football club stadium. A large housing estate is being built on this reclaimed land and I am collaborating with Dutch artist, Harald Vlugt, making several different kinds of art for the new estate.

Our ideas include a design for the floorscape which runs the length and breadth of the estate; designs for the columns at the base of the three tallest buildings; a sculpture motif which runs the full height of the three tallest buildings; and designs for the main street name signs.

All of our ideas revolve around football, we are very aware of the Ajax connection, and the idea of "polder", land reclaimed from the sea. In our efforts to link all of the designs together we have tried to create a house style.

The floor design is simple enough. At first we considered marking out a football pitch to fit into the estate but instead we will mark out a series of circles. The circles start from the viewpoint of a kick-off point on a football pitch but become more like ripples as the area of the circles become wider and wider. Different kinds of stone will be used to create this effect, a lighter one set against a dark tone.


THE VAK BUILDING
The sculptural motif uses real memorabilia from the old stadium, concrete bollards, and stand signs. They appear in a vertical line, a red and white check like a measuring device is created, the stand signs VAK-H, VAK-G, and so on running through the alphabet are attached to the side of the building. The bollards are set into the white part of the check at the bottom of each building. The check is marked by an additional blue line as a reminder of the water level and the fact that these buildings stand on reclaimed land. The VAK buildings are ten storeys tall and will be visible all over Amsterdam.


THE STREET SIGNS
They take their cue from the VAK buildings using the same check to enclose their designs. There are six main streets - Wembleylaan; Praterlaan; etc. Harald and I have designed a set of ceramic tiles for each one. Each sign makes reference to Ajax and famous games against foreign competitors for the European Cup. The check design around each sign refers to the opposing team's colours and the scores in the actual match. There are a lot of red and white checks because the opposing teams had much the same colours as Ajax. Wembleylaan is green and white because it refers to a game against Panathanikos played at Wembley Stadium in London where the score was 2:1.

In each of the street name designs we have tried to make reference to the stadiums where the games were played; the opposing team's colours; and action from supporters and players. Three of the street names are illustrated here, they will be copied onto ceramic tiles and fired. They look a bit like banners or emblems. We think they should not only identify where you are on the estate but also try to reflect the passion and colour of the game, as well as conforming to our house style. Once the ceramic tiles are made they will be framed into the fabric of the buildings. They will also be rather large.

The figurative work within the designs comes from the designs for the nine columns on the estate. Three columns sit at the foot of each of the three VAK buildings. There are nine columns but quite a few more designs fitted around each of these. We designed horizontal landscapes featuring a football match played on rough terrain, again a reference to polders. The drawing in this design comes from comics, football comics, war comics and a few other sources. Each design is never-ending, has no start and no finish. Harald and I very much liked the idea of someone leaning against a column, adult or child, following themselves around the column to get the whole picture.

Like the street signs, each design will be made into ceramic tiles. For the columns we have three different sizes of tile, 10, 15 and 20 centimetres so that a horizontal strip of six tiles might appear on one column, 8 tiles on the next and 12 on the third column.

We have also designed single tile images which may popup up on the columns at random and two of the columns will consist almost entirely of just coloured tiles. The word "Ajax" is picked out in one but simply looks like a pattern, while a green spiral appears on another.

1981 March Richard Booth Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, Wales
1982 Aug - Sept Lisson Gallery, London
1982 Nov New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1982 Dec - Jan Galerie t'Venster, Rotterdam
1983 Jan Mock Shop, Kingston Polytechnic, London
1983 Sept - Oct Castaways, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva
1983 Nov - Dec Ateliers Contemporains d'Arts Plastiques, St Brieuc
1985 Feb - April Towards A Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1985 Oct - Nov Galerie Foksal, Warsaw
1985 Dec Stoke City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
1986 Jan Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
1986 April David Mach Roadshow, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1986 April - May Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto
1986 June - Aug Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
1986 August Fuel for the Fire, Riverside Studios, London
1986 Aug - Sept Seagate Gallery, Dundee
1986 Sept - Oct If you go down to the woods, Corner House, Manchester
1986 Sept - Oct Chimney Sweep, Town Hall, Manchester
1986 Nov Sherratt & Hughes Bookshop, Leadenhall Market, London
1986 Dec National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
1986 Dec - Jan Hacienda Club, Manchester
1987 May Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Centre du Verre, Paris
1987 June - July Si avui t'endinses en els boscos, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
1987 June - Sept Adding Fuel to the Fire, Metronom Gallery, Barcelona
1987 August Mosaic, sited in Cattle Market Car Park, Kingston-upon-Thames
1987 Sept - Oct Natural Causes, Wiener Secession, Vienna
1987 Oct - Dec One of two British representatives at the 19th Biennale, Sao Paolo
1987 December Chinese Whispers, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1988 March - June A Hundred and One Dalmations, Tate Gallery, London
1988 April - May Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1988 May - June A Million Miles Away, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1988 May - Nov Signs of Life, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
1988 May Multi-Story Car Park, BBC Television Centre, London
1988 August A Nice Location, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo
1988 Sept - Jan The Art that Came Apart, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
1988 Oct - Dec David Mach, Galerie Ek'Ymore 1, Bordeaux
1988 Nov - Dec Parvis 2, Tarbes, France
1988 Nov - Dec Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva
1989 Jan - Feb Stream of Consciousness, Artspace, San Francisco
1989 Jan - March David Mach, FGG Gallery, Frankfurt
1989 Feb - April Tamed, Trained and Framed, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
1989 June - August Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, A New Utopia, Galerie Nikki Diana
1989 June Ploughman's Lunch, Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes
1989 August Kissin' Cousins, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg
1989 Sept - Oct Along Classical Lines, Melbourne Spoleto Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1989 Oct - Nov Home Cookin', Galerie 175, Brussels
1989 Oct - Nov Wet and Dry, Cultural Centre, Madrid
1989 Dec - Jan Five Easy Pieces, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1989 Dec - March A Hair's Breadth, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1990 March - April Here to Stay, The Tramway, Glasgow
1990 May Chicago Trophies, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago
1990 June - July Over to the Right a Bit, House of Ukrainian Artists, Kiev
1990 Oct - Nov Creature Comforts, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh
1991 April - Aug David Mach:Sculpture, Ace Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1991 May - August David Mach:Sculpture, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
1991 July Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
1991 Oct - April It Takes Two, commissioned by Camden Arts and British Rail
1992 Jan - Feb Orpheus Gallery, Belfast
1992 March - April Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1992 May - August Welcome to Euromach, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
1993 March - May David Mach: Sculpture, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
1993 April - June Between the Lines, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
1993 May - Sept David Mach: New Work, Viafarini, Milan
1993 May - Sept David Mach: New Work, Studio Casoli, Milan
1993 Sept/Oct Square Town/Town Square, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
1993 Sept - Oct Matchheads, The Gallery, Essex University, Colchester
1993 Dec - Jan Flayed, Stretched and Tanned, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall
1994 Jan - April Fully Furnished, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
1994 March - June Freeze, Musee Leon Dierx, Reunion Island
1994 April - May Drawings, CASK, Kitkyushu, Japan
1994 April - May Hako, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
1994 May - June Likeness Guaranteed, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
1994 July - August Headcase, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
1994 Aug - Sept Sculpture installation in the Sun Pavilion, Harrogate
1994 December David Mach, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
1995 March - May Whirl, Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge
1995 May - June David Mach: Sculpture, Sunderland City Art Gallery
1995 July - Oct Matchheads, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1995 Nov - Dec Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London
1995 Nov - Dec David Mach, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva
1996 June - July Naked, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
1996 Sept - Dec Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1997 April - Sept Heavy Duty, Hamumche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1997 June - Sept The Last Detail, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
1997 June - July New Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London
1998 May - July Columns, CRDC, Nantes
1998 May - July Drawings, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes
1998 Oct - Dec Touring exhibition of drawings, Cyprus
1998 Nov - Jan The Great Outdoors, sculpture installation and drawing exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati
2000 June David Mach, APT Galley, London
2000 August David Mach at the Advance Factory, Kilkenny Arts Festival
2000 Sept - Nov David Mach: Species, Galerie Jerome De Noirmont, Paris

2000 Sept - Oct David Mach: New Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London

1982 Feb - March Hildebrandtstrasse, Dusseldorf
1982 July - August Sculpture at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London
1982 Oct - Nov London/New York, Lisson Gallery, London
1983 Jan - March Truc et Troc, Leçons des Choses, ARC, Paris
1983 April - May Young Blood, Riverside Studios, London
1983 May - June Beelden/Sculpture, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
1983 May - Sept Necessities, Chateau de la Roche Jagu, Brittany
1983 July - Sept Diagonale, Espace Montevideo, Antwerp
1983 July Danse a Aix, Aix-en-Provence
1983 Aug - Sept British Sculpture '83, Hayward Gallery, London
1983 Aug - Sept Sculptors Drawings, Air Gallery, London
1983 October Sculpture Symposium, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1983 Oct - Dec Ars '83, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki
1983 November Art Ink 83, ICA, London
1984 March Plux Value, Galerie Eric Fabre
1984 March Acquisitions, Fond Regional Art Contemporain du Rhones- Alpes, France
1984 May - Oct International Garden Festival, Liverpool
1984 June Art Within Reach, Air Gallery, London
1984 July - Sept Paper Trails, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1984 Aug - Sept Repeats, Coracle Press, London
1984 August Demarcation, Edinburgh International Festival
1984 September Festival a la Bastion, Geneva
1984 September Art on the Map, Canterbury Fringe Festival
1984 October L'Hotel Revisite, presented by Fondation Charles Jourdan, Avenue de New york, Paris
1984 Nov - Dec Low-Tech, Coracle Press at Rees Martin Art Services, London
1985 Feb - March Still Life, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1985 May Royal Scotsman, Edinburgh
1985 May - Sept Beelden op de Berg, Wageningen, Holland
1985 June - Oct Automobiennale, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
1985 June - Dec David Mach,Colin Nicholas, London Business School
1985 September Canterbury Fringe Festival
1985 October Impulse, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladbach
1985 All year Scottish Travelling Drawing Show
1985 All year FRAC du Rhones-Alpes touring exhibition, France , ICA
1986 April Conversions, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York
1986 May Sculpture in the City, Bath
1986 May International Contemporary Art Fair, London
1986 May - July Spring Fling, Edinburgh
1986 June - Oct International Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent
1986 July - Aug Batley Art Gallery, Huddersfield
1986 Aug - Sept Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
1986 October Contrariwise, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
1987 January 2D/3D, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1987 Jan - Feb College of FE, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
1987 March Idsall School, Shifnal, Shropshire
1987 April - May City Artists Gallery, London
1987 May - June The British Edge, ICA, Boston
1987 May - June Stichting Art Paper 87, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
1987 July Zomerfestyn 87, Amsterdam
1987 August Black and White, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1987 Aug - Oct Century 87, Amsterdam
1987 Aug - Oct The Vigorous Imagination, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1987 Sept - Oct Metal and Motion, Brighton
1987 Sept - Oct The Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987 October International Iron Sculpture Symposium, Kitakyushu, Japan
1988 Feb - March Off the Beaten Track, UK/LA Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles
1988 Feb - March New Directions : New Attitudes in Scottish Art, touring exhibition in Yugoslavia
1988 May New British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1988 June - July Wakefield 100, Wakefield
1988 July Henley Arts Festival, Henley-on-Thames
1988 Sept - Jan British Arts Retrospective, touring exhibition in France
1989 Feb - March Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow
1989 June - August Scottish Art since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1989 July Contemporary British Art, Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, Ohio
1989 Aug - Sept Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
1990 Jan - February Guillaume Bijl, David Mach, Carmen Perrin, Galerie Andata/ Ritorno, Geneva
1990 Feb - March Scottish Art since 1900, Scottish Gallery, London
1990 Feb - March Scottish Art since 1900, Barbican Gallery, London
1990 May - Sept National Garden Festival, Gateshead
1990 May - Sept Three Scottish Sculptors, Venice Biennale
1990 June - August die Collectie Alsnoch, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt
1990 July - August Sculptors Work on Paper, Flowers East, London
1990 July - Nov New Purchases, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
1990 Aug 1990 - British Art Now : A Subjective View, touring in Japan, to June 1991 Setagaya Museum, Tokyo ; Fukuoka Art Museum ; Nagoya City Art Museum ; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts ; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
1991 March - April Guillaume Bijl, Marcel Duchamp, David Mach, Jurg Moser, Carmen Perrin, Galerie Moi-Farine, Geneva
1991 May William Jackson Gallery, London
1991 June - August Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
1991 June - August Kunst Europa, Karlsruhe, Germany
1991 June - August Selected Artists, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
1991 July - Sept Virtue and Vision : Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1991 Aug - Sept Espace, Sculptors' Society of Ireland, Dublin
1991 November Sculptors and Sculptors' Drawings, William Jackson Gallery
1992 Jan - February Changing Perspectives, Ash Gallery, Edinburgh
1992 June Installation, De Werf, Aalst
1992 June New Purchases, National Art Collections Fund, Sothebys, London
1992 June - July Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Millfield School, Somerset
1992 June - August Sculpture Biennial, Jesus College, Cambridge
1992 September Critics' Choice, Cooling Gallery, London
1992 November Decade Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, City Museum and Art Galleries, Dundee
1992 December The Selected Line, William Jackson Gallery, London
1993 March - April Vormin Herhaling, Jansen & Kooy, Amsterdam
1993 May - June Summer Seen, William Jackson Gallery, London
1993 Sept - Jan Sculpture Garden, Lewisham Town Centre, London
1994 June - Sept British Sculpture, Beaux Arts, London
1994 July - Sept Summer Show, William Jackson Gallery, London
1994 October A Changing World : 50 Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
1994 December Collection, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
1995 January Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
1995 February Contemporary Sculpture, Collyer Bristow, London
1995 April Wasser und Wein, Krems
1995 April Eastwood Festival of the Arts, Glasgow
1995 May Four Artists, City Art Gallery, Sunderland
1995 May - Sept Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1995 June Fitch's Ark, London
1996 February Jesus College Quincentary Prints, Barbican Gallery, London
1996 April - May Framed, with Harald Vlugt, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
1996 August Artists from Fife, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy
1996 September Wheels, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
1996 Sept - Oct Sculpture Biennial, Jesus College, Cambridge
1996 November Sculptors' Drawings, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
1996 December Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam
1996 December David Mach, Peter Randall-Page, Michael Sandle, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
1996 December Sculptors Drawings, Royal Academy, London
1996 Dec - January Art at BUPA House, London
1997 January A Cloudburst of Material Possessions, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, and touring in England
1997 Jan - March Drawings, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
1997 May - July David Mach and Zadok Ben-David, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1997 June - August Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1997 Oct - December Sculptors' Maquettes, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
1997 Dec - January David Mach and Dermot Blackburn, Train photographs and Drawings, Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington
1998 Jan - March Contemporary Sculpture, Ace Art Inc. New York
1998 March - May Fife Artists, Heritage Museum, Methil
1998 April - May David Mach and Zadok Ben-David, BUPA House, London
1998 April - June min or meer, Amstelven Tidjelik, Holland
1998 April - June 80 artistes autour du Mondial, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
1998 July - October Collected Works, Musee Leon Dierx, Reunion Island
1999 All year British Council touring exhibition of works from its collection
1999 June - August Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1999 June - August Gallery Artisits, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
1999 June - September Sculptuur 99, Den Haag - exhibited coathanger busts HisnHers
2000 July Sculpture, 5000 Years Of It, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000 Aug - Sept Artists Choice, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
2000 Oct - Nov The Eye Of the Storm, La Mandria, Turin
2000 Oct - Nov Artaid, Vinopolis, London

Dec 1989 Out of Order, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames
Aug 1993 All Around the Houses, commissioned by Union des Banques Suisses for their new headquarters building in Geneva
Sept 1994 Kiss and Tell (?), second commission for Union des Banques Suisses in Geneva
Nov - Dec 1994 Temple at Tyre, Leith Docks, Edinburgh, commissioned by Edinburgh City Council as part of their bid to be City of Architecture & Design
April 1996 Installed Garden Urn, Hat Hill Sculpture Park, Goodwood
October 1996 Urn, commissioned for their collection by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
December 1996 Installed Some of the People, Partick Underground Station, Glasgow, commissioned to celebrate Glasgow Underground's Centenary
January 1997 Installed It Takes Two on Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia - part of Sydney's International Arts Festival
June 1997 Unveiled Train, Britain's largest contemporary public sculpture in Darlington, commissioned by Darlington Council, Morrison Supermarkets and Northern Arts
October 1998 Installed gargoyle sculpture commissioned by the town of Nicosia, Cyprus
June 1999 Unveiled Big Heids, three sculptures sited by the M8 motorway in North Lanark, Scotland
December 1999 Completed A National Portrait, a 225' x 10' collage of Britain, commissioned by the NMEC for the Self Portrait Zone of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich

David Mach