DAVID
MACH
David Mach is one of the UK’s most successful and respected artists, known for his dynamic and imaginative large scale collages, sculptures and installations using diverse media, including coat hangers, matches, magazines and many other materials. The Scotsman describes his work as ‘big on gesture and big in proportion, it demands your attention and gets it’.
Mach’s first solo exhibition was held at the Lisson Gallery, London in 1982. His international reputation was quickly established and he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Hakone, Tel Aviv and Warsaw. Public commissions include the tumbling telephone boxes, “Out of Order” in Kingston, “Train” in Darlington; “Big Heids”, visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh; “It Takes Two”, sited North of Paris and in Marseille, Likeness Guaranteed commissioned by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, and most recently, “Giants” in Vinadio, Italy and “Phantom”, commissioned by Morrisons supermarket for the Promenade in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Born in 1956 in Fife, David Mach attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where he chose to specialise in sculpture because he thought it was the most demanding, intellectually and physically. Following a postgraduate year, Mach won a scholarship to attend Art College in Warsaw. As Martial Law had been declared in Poland, he was unable to take up his place but instead was invited to do his MA at the Royal College of Art.
Mach became a part-time lecturer in the Sculpture School, Kingston University from 1982 to 1986 and was a lecturer at the Contemporary Art Summer School, Kitakyushu, Japan from 1987 to 1991. In 1988 he was nominated for the Turner Prize and four years later won Glasgow’s Lord Provost Prize. He became a Royal Academician in 1998. In 2000 he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London.
He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee in 2002. In 2003 his “Arm’s Length” sculpture of a woman made in coat hangers won The Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2004 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the same year, the University of Dundee appointed him Professor of Inspiration and Discovery. From 2006-2010 he became a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
In 2011 Mach was awarded the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award for his exhibition “Precious Light”, a daring contemporary interpretation of the King James Bible in the form of large-scale collage and sculpture. The same year, he also won the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Art.
David Mach is currently based in Fife, Scotland.
2011
- —Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Art
- —Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award 2011 winner for Precious Light
2006-2010
- —Elected to the board of the National Portrait Gallery
2004
- —First Visiting Professor of Inspiration and Discovery at the University of Dundee (Scotland)
- —Made Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy
2002
- —Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Dundee University
2000
- —Appointed Professor of Sculpture, Royal Academy Schools, London
1999
- —Visiting Professor, Sculpture Department, Edinburgh College of Art
1998
- —Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Arts
1992
- —Won Lord Provost’s Award, RGI, Glasgow
1988
- —Nominated for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1979 – 1982
- —Royal College of Art (RCA), London
1978
- —SED major travelling scholarship
1977
- —SED major travelling scholarship
1976
- —Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship
1975
- —Pat Holmes Memorial Prize
1974 – 1979
- —Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee (Scotland)
1956
- —Born in Methil, Fife (Scotland)
2019
- Apr-May
"Waves", Newspaper Installation, Chester Cathedral
- Aug-Sept
"The Paper to Prove It", Royal Scottish Academy
2018
- Apr
"Against The Tide", Newspaper Installation, CassArt, Glasgow
- Jun
"Commando Collage", Cupar Arts, Scotland
- Jul
"Rock n' Roll", Newspaper Installation, Galway, Ireland
- Jul
"MACHnificient", Henley Festival
- Sept
"Signs of Life", Collaboration Mach/Adesina, Bolee Gallery, London
2017
- Mar
David Mach – Alternative Facts - Dadiani Fine Art, London
- May-Jun
Incoming – Newspaper Installation – Griffin Gallery, London
- Jun-Aug
Mach Goes Commando, Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham
- Sept
Fire Station Centre, “Against the Tide”, Outwith Festival, Dunfermline
2016
- Jan-Feb
Mach Goes Commando, Shetlands Art Development Agency
- Mar-Apr
Golgotha, Chester Cathedral
2015
- Apr-June
Precious Light, Centre of Turin, Italy
- June-Jul
Mach Goes Commando, DLI Museum, Durham
2013
- Feb-March
David Mach, New Works, Forum Gallery, NY
- May-June
Precious Light - Palazzo Frangini, Venice
- Aug-Oct
“Mach goes Commando”, Lochgelly
2012
- July
David Mach-Precious Light, Galway, Ireland
- Nov-Dec
Mach-Mania : the David Mach Show, Opera Gallery, HK
2011
- Jul-Oct
David Mach-Precious Light, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
2010
- Oct
“Iconography”, Opera Gallery, London
2009
- 2009
Mach, Opera Gallery, Geneva
2008
- July-Aug
“Size doesn’t matter”, Art Center de Vishal, Haarlem, Holland
YouTube Video - Oct
“Breaking Images”, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
- Oct
“David Mach”, DUTAC, Dubai
- Oct-Nov
“Tête à Tête”, Jill George Gallery, London
2007
- Feb-April
“David Mach-In Seine”, Opera Garnier, Paris
- April-May
“David Mach”, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles
- May-June
“Postcard Collages”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Sept-Nov
“Iconography”, Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
- Nov-Jan
“David Mach”, Forum Gallery, NY
2006
- March
“David Mach”, Dundee
- Oct-Nov
“Visit London”, Touring exhibition, London, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona
- Oct-Nov
“The State of Heads”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Oct-Nov
“Fortune”, Mint Club, Hong Kong
2005
- March-April
“New Collages and Sculpture, Forum Gallery, NY
2004
- Oct-Nov
“New Collages”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2003
- Sept-Nov
“Straight Up”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
2002
- Jan
Drawings, Marks & Spencer Head Office, London
- March-Sept
“Hell Bent”, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- Oct
“New Collages of London”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2001
- April-Jan
Touring exhibition of original artwork of “Portrait of Britain” – 17 different venues
- Oct-Nov
Galerie IUFM Confluence(s), Lyon
- Nov
Hugo Boss, Rome, Italy
- Nov
“David Mach”, Galeria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2000
- June
“The Mild Bunch”, APT Gallery, London
- Aug
“David Mach at the Advance Factory”, Kilkenny
- Sept-Oct
“Species”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
- Sept-Oct
“New Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
1999
- 1999
“The National Portrait” commissioned for the Self Portrait Zone, The Dome, Greenwich, London
1998
- May-July
“Columns”, CRDC, Nantes, France
- May-July
“Drawings”, École des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
- June
“Train”, Darlington, UK
- Sept-Dec
“David Mach”, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
- Oct-Dec
Touring Exhibition of Drawings, Cyprus
- Nov-Jan
“The Great Outdoors”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati. USA
1997
- March
“David Mach”, Laurence Graham, London
- April-Sept
“Heavy Duty”, Hamumche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
- June-Sept
“The Last Detail”, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
- June-July
“New Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Oct
“The Revels”, International Arts Festival, Melbourne
1996
- June-July
“Naked”, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
- Sept-Dec
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1995
- March-May
“Whirl”, Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge
- May-June
“David Mach: Sculpture”, Sunderland City Art Gallery
- July-Oct
Matchheads”, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
- Nov-Dec
“Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Nov-Dec
“David Mach”, Galerie Andate/Ritorno, Geneva
1994
- Jan-April
“Fully Furnished”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
- March-June
“Freeze”, Musée Leon Dierx, Reunion Island
- April-May
“Drawings”, CASK, Kitakyushu (Japan)
- April-May
“Hako”, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
- May-June
“Likeness Guaranteed”, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
- July-Aug
“Headcase”, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
- Aug-Sept
Sculpture Installation in the Sun Pavilion, Harrogate
- Nov-Dec
“Temple at Tyre”, Leith Docks, Edinburgh
- Dec
“David Mach”. Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
1993
- March-May
“David Mach: Sculpture”, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
- April-June
“Between the Lines”, Hakone Open-Air Museum (Japan)
- May-Sept
“David Mach: New Work”, Studio Casoli, Milan
- Sept-Oct
“Square Town/Town Square”, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
- Sept-Oct
“Matchheads”, the Gallery, Essex University, Colchester
- Dec-Jan
“Flayed, Stretched and Tanned”, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall
1992
- March-May
“David Mach: Sculpture”, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
- April-June
“Between the Lines”, Hakone Open-Air Museum (Japan)
- May-Sept
“David Mach: New Work”, Studio Casoli, Milan
- Sept-Oct
“Square Town/Town Square”, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
- Sept-Oct
“Matchheads”, the Gallery, Essex University, Colchester
- Dec-Jan
“Flayed, Stretched and Tanned”, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall
1991
- April-Aug
“David Mach: Sculpture”, Ace Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- May-Aug
“David Mach: Sculpture”, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
- July
Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Oct-April
“It Takes Two”, Euston Square Gardens, London
1990
- March-April
“Here to stay”, Tramway, Glasgow
- May
“Chicago Trophies”, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago
- June-July
“Over to the Right a Bit”, House of Ukrainian Artists, Kiev
- Oct-Nov
“Creature Comforts”, Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, Pittsburgh
1989
- Jan-Feb
“Stream of Consciousness”, Artspace, San Francisco
- Jan-March
“David Mach”, FGG Gallery, Frankfurt
- Feb-April
“Tamed, Trained and Framed”, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
- June-Aug
“Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité-A New Utopia”, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
- June
“Ploughman’s Lunch”, Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes
- Aug
“Kissin Cousins”, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg
- Sept-Oct
“Along Classic Lines”, Melbourne Spoleto Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Oct-Nov
“Home Cookin”, Galerie 175, Brussels
- Oct-Nov
“Wet and Dry”, Cultural Centre, Madrid
- Dec-Jan
“Five easy Pieces”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
- Dec-March
“A Hair’s Breadth”, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1988
- March-June
“A Hundred and One Dalmatians”, Tate Gallery, London
- April-May
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada)
- May-June
“A Million Miles Away”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
- May-Nov
“Signs of Life”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt (Belgium)
- May
“Multi-Storey Car Park”, BBC Television Centre, London
- Aug
“A Nice Location”, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo
- Sept-Jan
The Art that Came Apart”, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
- Oct-Dec
“David Mach”, Galerie Ek’Ymose 1, Bordeaux
- Nov-Dec
“Parvis 2”, Tarbes (France)
- Nov-Dec
Galerie Antada/Ritorno, Geneva
1987
- May
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Centre du Verre, Paris
- June-July
“Si avui t’endinses en els boscos”, Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona
- June-Sept
“Adding Fuel to the Fire”, Metronom Gallery, Barcelona
- Sept-Oct
“Natural Causes”, Wiener Secession, Vienna
- Oct-Dec
One of two British Representatives at the 19th Biennale, Sao Paolo
- Dec
“Chinese Whispers”, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1986
- Jan
Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
- April
“David Mach Roadshow”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
- April-May
Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto
- June-Aug
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning (Denmark)
- Aug
“Fuel for the Fire”, Riverside Studios, London
- Aug-Sept
Seagate Gallery, Dundee
- Sept-Oct
“If you go down to the woods”, Corner House, Manchester
“Chimney Sweep”, Town Hall, Manchester - Nov
Sherratt & Hughes Bookshop, Leadenhall market, London
- Dec
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
- Dec-Jan
Hacienda Club, Manchester
1985
- Feb-April
“Towards a Landscape”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- Oct-Nov
Galerie Foksal, Warsaw
- Dec
Stoke City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
1983
- Jan
Mock Shop, Kingston Polytechnic, London
- Sept-Oct
Castaways, Galerie Antada/Ritorno, Geneva
- Nov-Dec
Ateliers Contemporains d’Arts Plastiques, St Brieuc, France
- Nov
Polaris, Installation made out of old Tyres, outside the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank London
1982
- Aug-Sept
Lisson Gallery, London
- Nov
New 57 Gallery, London
- Dec-Jan
Galerie t Venster, Rotterdam
1981
- March
Richard Booth Bookshop, Hay-on Wye (Wales)
2019
- Feb
The Corridor Exhibition, Chelsea Arts Club
2018
- Jan-Mar
Burns Unbroke
- May-Jun
RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
- May-Jul
The Revelation of the Head, Messums Wiltshire
- Jun-Jul
RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
- Jun-Aug
Royal Academy Summer Show and Selection Committee Member
Under Siege/Members Only/Meteorite/Full Metal Jacket/The Battle of Burlington House - Jul-Aug
Assemblage, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
- Sept
The North Sea, Outwith Festival, Dunfermline
(Dark Matter)
2017
- Mar
David Mach – Alternative Facts - Dadiani Fine Art, London
- May-Jun
Incoming – Newspaper Installation – Griffin Gallery, London
- Jun-Aug
Mach Goes Commando, Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham
- Sept
Fire Station Centre, “Against the Tide”, Outwith Festival, Dunfermline
2016
- Jan-Feb
Mach Goes Commando, Shetlands Art Development Agency
- Mar-Apr
Golgotha, Chester Cathedral
2015
- Apr-June
Precious Light, Centre of Turin, Italy
- June-Jul
Mach Goes Commando, DLI Museum, Durham
2013
- Feb-March
David Mach, New Works, Forum Gallery, NY
- May-June
Precious Light - Palazzo Frangini, Venice
- Aug-Oct
“Mach goes Commando”, Lochgelly
2012
- July
David Mach-Precious Light, Galway, Ireland
- Nov-Dec
Mach-Mania : the David Mach Show, Opera Gallery, HK
2011
- Jul-Oct
David Mach-Precious Light, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
2010
- Oct
“Iconography”, Opera Gallery, London
2009
- 2009
Mach, Opera Gallery, Geneva
2008
- July-Aug
“Size doesn’t matter”, Art Center de Vishal, Haarlem, Holland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlVcplxQZho - Oct
“Breaking Images”, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
- Oct
“David Mach”, DUTAC, Dubai
- Oct-Nov
“Tête à Tête”, Jill George Gallery, London
2007
- Feb-April
“David Mach-In Seine”, Opera Garnier, Paris
- April-May
“David Mach”, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles
- May-June
“Postcard Collages”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Sept-Nov
“Iconography”, Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
- Nov-Jan
“David Mach”, Forum Gallery, NY
2006
- March
“David Mach”, Dundee
- Oct-Nov
“Visit London”, Touring exhibition, London, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona
- Oct-Nov
“The State of Heads”, Jill George Gallery, London
- Oct-Nov
“Fortune”, Mint Club, Hong Kong
2005
- March-April
“New Collages and Sculpture, Forum Gallery, NY
2004
- Oct-Nov
“New Collages”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2003
- Sept-Nov
“Straight Up”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
2002
- Jan
Drawings, Marks & Spencer Head Office, London
- March-Sept
“Hell Bent”, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- Oct
“New Collages of London”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2001
- April-Jan
Touring exhibition of original artwork of “Portrait of Britain” – 17 different venues
- Oct-Nov
Galerie IUFM Confluence(s), Lyon
- Nov
Hugo Boss, Rome, Italy
- Nov
“David Mach”, Galeria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2000
- March-June
L’Homme qui marche...”, Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris
- June-Sept
“People in Motion”, Den Haag
- Oct-Nov
Eye of the Storm”, Parco la Mandria, Turin
- Oct
“Artaid 2000, Vinopolis Gallery, London At Home with Art” touring exhibition started at Tate Britain and then various venues in England
1999
- June-Sept
“Sculptuur 99, Den Haag
1998
- Jan-March
“Contemporary Sculpture”, Ace Art Inc., NY
- April-May
“min or meer”, Amstelven, Tidjelik, Holland
- Oct-1999
“Transistors”, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
1997
- Jan-Oct
“A Cloudburst of Material Possessions”, touring exhibition
- May-July
“David Mach and Zadok Ben-David”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1996
- April-May
“Framed”, with Harald Vlugt, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
- Sept-Oct
“Sculpture in the Close”, Jesus College, Cambridge
- Nov-Jan
“30 Artistes pour la Liberté”, Elac, Lyon
1995
- June
“Dialogues de Paix”, Palais des Nations, Geneva
1994
- June-Sept
“British Sculpture”, Beaux Arts, London
- July-Sept
“Summer Show”, William Jackson Gallery, London
- Oct
“A Changing World: Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection”, The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
- Dec
Absolut Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1993
- March-April
“Vormin Herhaling”, Jansen & Kooy, Amsterdam
- May-June
“Summer Seen” William Jackson Gallery, London
- Sept-Jan
Sculpture Garden, Lewisham Town Centre, London
1992
- Jan-Feb
“Challenging Perspectives”, Ash Gallery, Edinburgh
- June
“New Purchases, National Art Collection Fund”, Sothebys, London
- June-July
Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Millfield School, Somerset
- June-Aug
“Sculpture Biennal”, Jesus College, Cambridge
- Sept
“Critics Choice”, Cooling Gallery, London
- Nov
“Decade Show”, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, City Museum and Art Galleries and various sites around Dundee
- Dec
“The Selected Line”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1991
- March-April
“Guillaume Bijl, Marcel Duchamp, David Mach, Jurg Moser, Carmen Perrin”, Galerie Moi-Farine, Geneva
- May
William Jackson Gallery, London
- June-Aug
“Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy of Art, London
- June-Aug
“Kunst Europa”, Karlsruhe (Germany)
- June-Aug
“Selected Artists”, Galerie Nikki Marquardt, Paris
- July-Sept
“Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990”, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- Aug-Sept
“Espace”, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Dublin
- Nov
“Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1990
- Jan-Feb
“Guillaume Bijl, David Mach, Carmen Perrin”, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva
- Feb-March
“Scottish Art Since 1990”, Scottish Gallery, London
- Feb-March
“Scottish Art Since 1900”, Barbican, London
- May-Sept
National Garden Festival, Gateshead
- May-Sept
“Three Scottish Sculptors”, Biennale, Venice
- June-Aug
“Die Collectie Alsnoch”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt (Belgium)
- July-Aug
“Sculptors Work on Paper”, Flowers East, London
- July-Nov
“New Purchases”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
- Aug-June
“British Art Now: A Subjective View”, touring exhibition in Japan visiting 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
1989
- Feb-March
Opening exhibition, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow
- June-Aug
“Scottish Art Since 1900”, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- July
“Contemporary British Art, Hammond Gallery, Lancaster, Ohio
- Aug-Sept
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
1988
- Feb-March
“New Directions: New Attitudes in Scottish Art”, touring exhibition in Yugoslavia
- May
“New British Art”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
- June-July
“Wakefield 100”, Wakefield
- July
Henley Arts Festival, Henley-on-Thames
- Sept-Jan
British Arts Retrospective, touring exhibition in France
- Feb-March
Off the Beaten Track”, UK/LA Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles
1987
- Jan
“2D/3D”, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon Tyne
- Jan-Feb
Sutton College of Further Education, Sutton, Coldfield
- March
Idsall School, Shifnal, Shropshire
- April-May
City Artists Gallery, London
- May-June
“The British Edge”, ICA, Boston
- May-June
“Stichting Art Paper 87”, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
- July
“Zomerfestyn 87”, Amsterdam
- Aug-Oct
“Century 87”, Amsterdam
- Aug
“Black and White”, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
- Aug-Oct
“The Vigorous Imagination”, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- Sept-Oct
“Metal and Motion”, Brighton
- Sept-Oct
“The Vessel”, Serpentine Gallery, London
- Oct
“International Iron Sculpture Symposium”, Kitakyushu (Japan)
1986
- April
“Conversions”, Germans van Eck Gallery, NY
- May
“Sculpture in the City”, Bath
- May-July
“Spring Fling”, Edinburgh
- June-Oct
International Garden Festival, Stoke-on Trent
- July-Aug
Batley Art Gallery, Huddersfield
- Aug-Sept
“Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
- Oct
“Contrariwise”, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
1985
- Feb-March
“Still Life”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
- May
“Royal Scotsman”, (production and exhibition of work on Royal Scottish Train)
- May-Sept
“Beelden op de Berg”, Wageningen (The Netherlands)
- June
“The interim Art Wall, Ceiling Floor Show”, with Artangel Roadshow, London
- June-Oct
“Automobiennale”, Middlelheim Museum, Antwerp
- June-Dec
“David Mach, Colin Nicholas”, London Business School, London
- Sept
Canterbury Fringe Festival
- Oct
“Impulse”, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladbach (Germany)
All year Scottish Travelling Drawing Show
All year FRAC de Rhônes-Alpes Touring exhibition in France
1984
- Feb
“New Directions”, Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
- March
“Plus Value”, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris
- March
“Acquisitions”, Fond Régional Art Contemporain de Rhônes-Alpes (France)
- May-Oct
International Garden Festival, Liverpool
- June
“Art Within Reach”, Air Gallery, London
- July-Sept
“Paper Trails”, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
- Aug-Sept
“Repeats”, Coracle Press, London
- Aug
“Demarcation”, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh
- Sept
“Festival à la Bastion”, Geneva
- Sept
“Art bon the Map”, Canterbury Fringe Festival, Canterbury
- Oct
“L’Hotel Revisité” (presented by FondationCharles Jourdan), Avenue de New York, Paris
- Nov-Dec
“Low-Tech”, Coracle Press at Rees Martin Fine Art Services, London
1983
- Jan-March
"Truc et Troc, Leçons des choses”, ARC, Paris
- April-May
“Young Blood”, Riverside Studios, London
- May-June
“Beelden/Sculpture”, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
- May-Sept
“Necessités”, Chateau de la Roche Jagu, Brittany
- July
“Danse à Aix”, Aix en Provence
- July-Sept
“Diagonale”, Espace Montevideo, Antwerp
- Aug-Sept
“British Sculpture 83”, Hayward Gallery, London
- Aug-Sept
“Sculptors’ Drawings”, Air Gallery, London
- Oct
“Sculpture Symposium”, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- Oct-Dec
“Arts 83”, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki
- Nov
“Art Ink 83”, ICA, London
1982
- Feb-March
Hildebrandtstrasse, Dosseldorf
- July-Aug
“Sculpture at teh Open Air Theatre”, Regent’s Park, London
- Oct-Nov
“London/New York”, Lisson Gallery, London
2015
- Feb
Phantom, commissioned by Morrisons Supermarkets, Scotland
2014
- June
War Memorial, Leven, Scotland
2012
- June
The Vinadio Giants, VIAPAC Project, Regione Piemonte, Vinadio, Italy
2011
- July
“It Takes two to Tango” Ville de Marseille
2002
- March
Collage Portrait of Glasgow commissioned by Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow
2000
- May
Unveiled “Scramble”, Vicar Lane, Chesterfield, second sculpture commissioned by Chesterfield Council
- May
Unveiled “Good Guys, Bad Guys”, Vicar Lane, Chesterfield, sculpture commissioned by Chesterfield Council
1999
- June
Unveiled “Big Heids”, three sculptures sited by the M8 motorway in North Lanark, Scotland, commissioned by North Lanark Council
- Dec
Installed “A National Portrait”, a 225’x10’ collage of Britain, commissioned by the NMEC for the Self Portrait Zone of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich
1998
- Oct
Installed gargoyle sculpture commissioned by the town of Nicosia, Cyprus
1997
- Jan
Installed “It Takes Two”, on Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia, fir Sidney International Arts Festival
- June
Unveiled “Train”, Britain’s largest contemporary public sculpture in Darlington, commissioned by Darlington Council, Morrison Supermarkets and Northern Arts
1996
- Oct
“Urn”, commissioned for their collection by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
- Dec
Installed “Some of the People”, Partick Underground Station, Glasgow, commissioned to celebrate the Centenary of the Underground
1994
- Sept
“Kiss and Tell”, second commission for Union de Banques Suisses, Geneva
- Nov-Dec
“Temple at Tyre”, Leith Docks, Edinburgh, commissioned by Edinburgh City Council to support their bid to be City of Architecture and Design
1993
- Aug
“All around the Houses”, commissioned by Union de Banques Suisses for their new headquarters building in Geneva
1989
- Dec
“Out of Order”, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames