Editing David Mach (section)

==Work==
<!-- [[File:David Mach Adding Fuel to the Fire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|One of David Mach's magazine pieces, ''Adding Fuel to the Fire'', installation in [[Barcelona]].]] -->
One example of his early magazine pieces, ''Adding Fuel to the Fire'', was an [[installation art|installation]] assembled from an old truck and several cars surrounded and subsumed by about 100 tons of magazines, individually arranged to create the impression that the vehicles were being caught in an explosion of flames and billowing smoke.<ref name="DM"/>

An early influential sculpture was ''Polaris'' in 1983,<ref name="npg">{{cite web |url= https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw12332/Sir-Richard-Branson?search=sa&LinkID=mp10384&role=art&rNo=0 |title= Sir Richard Branson 1 portrait by David Mach |work= National Portrait Gallery |access-date= August 14, 2023}}</ref> exhibited outside the [[Royal Festival Hall]], [[South Bank Centre]], [[London]].<ref name="DM"/> This consisted of some 6,000 car tyres arranged as a life size replica of a [[Resolution-class submarine|Polaris submarine]].<ref name="DM"/> Mach intended it as a protest against the [[nuclear arms race]] meant to stir controversy.<ref name="DM"/> A member of the public, James Gore-Graham from West Kensington, who took exception to the piece tried to burn it down; unfortunately, he got caught in the flames himself and suffered 90% burns from the explosion and died three days later.<ref name="DM">{{cite web |url= https://dangerousminds.net/comments/david_machs_incredible_sculptures |title= David Mach's Incredible Sculptures |work= dangerousminds.net |date= December 29, 2010 |access-date= August 14, 2023}}</ref>

In the early 1980s Mach started to produce some smaller-scale works assembled out of unstruck [[match|match stick]]s. These mostly took the form of human or animalistic heads and masks, like ''Elvis'',<ref name="DM"/> with the coloured tips of the match heads arranged to construct the patterned surface of the face. After accidentally setting fire to one of these heads, Mach now often ignites his match pieces as a form of [[performance art]]. He constructed ''Gorilla'' from coat-hangers.<ref name="DM"/>

[[File:Brick Train Darlington - geograph.org.uk - 308862.jpg|thumb|''Brick Train'' near [[Darlington]]]]
In 1997, Mach produced some larger-scale permanent public works such as ''Out of Order'' in [[Kingston upon Thames]], the ''[[Brick Train]]'' (a depiction of an [[LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard]] steam engine which held the speed record of 126mph in 1934), made from 185,000 bricks, which can be seen near Morrison's supermarket on the A66 just outside [[Darlington]].<ref name="train">{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisdarlington.com/attractions/Darlingtons_Brick_Train.asp |title=Darlington's Brick Train |publisher=This is Darlington |access-date=6 January 2020}}</ref> and the ''Big Heids'' visible from the [[M8 motorway (Scotland)|M8]] between [[Glasgow]] and [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="NG"/>

A second strand to Mach's work are his [[collage]] pieces.<ref name="npg"/> Partly as a result of having access to thousands of reproduced images in the magazines left over from many of his installations, Mach began to experiment with producing collages.<ref name="npg"/> In 1999, he produced a mixed-media postcard and photo-collage of [[Sir Richard Branson]], measuring 1.824 x 1.826 metres.<ref name="npg"/> he did a ''National Portrait,'' of 3 x 70 metres collage for the [[Millennium Dome]] that featured many images of British people at work and at play.

In 2011, he joined forces with the [[Museum of Edinburgh]], to produce an explosive display celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.<ref name="bible">{{Cite web |url= http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/City-Art-Centre/Exhibitions/Exhibitions-Coming-Soon/David-Mach---Precious-Light.aspx |title= Exhibition July to October 2011 at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh |work= edinburghmuseums.org.uk |date= 2011 |access-date= 23 November 2019 |archive-date= 22 January 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110122164336/http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/City-Art-Centre/Exhibitions/Exhibitions-Coming-Soon/David-Mach---Precious-Light.aspx |url-status= dead }}</ref>