David Mach was born in Methil, Fife and studied at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and at the Royal College of Art, London. Mach specialises in using everyday mass-produced material to produce often large-scale installations : life-size steam trains made from bricks, nuclear submarines from tyres, giant classical pillars from newspapers. His smaller scale projects are no less appealing. Typical of these are the 'match head' series: portraits, similar to Chinese and Venetian theatre masks, made from unstruck matches glued together so that only the multicoloured heads show on the surface. Mach's monumental works are regularly exhibited around the world and their wry humour, social comment and sheer accessibility have won him both critical and popular acclaim.