# David Mach artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:20:34.163Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish, British
- Movements: Assemblage, Contemporary installation art
- Common media: Mass-produced everyday objects, Magazines and newspapers, Matchsticks, Car tyres, Coat hangers, Teddy bears, Recycled everyday materials

## Portrait

![David Mach](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/David_Mach_2023.jpg)
studio international · CC BY 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Mach_2023.jpg

## About David Mach

David Mach is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist, born in 1956 and also identified by authority sources as a British artist. He is associated with assemblage and contemporary installation practices, especially flowing accumulations made from familiar, mass-produced objects. Published descriptions of his work identify materials such as magazines, newspapers, matchsticks, car tyres, coat hangers, teddy bears, and other everyday or recycled items. This material vocabulary lets ordinary objects function as both construction units and immediately recognizable visual signs. Many of Mach's installations have been temporary and made for public spaces, placing process, scale, and setting at the center of how the work is experienced. Collectors and appraisers may encounter his name in connection with sculpture, assemblage, installation-related material, and objects distinguished by their unconventional construction. Careful identification of the work type and its constituent materials is therefore essential when researching an example attributed to him.

## Common works and media

Works associated with David Mach commonly fall within sculpture, assemblage, and installation art. His documented material vocabulary includes magazines, newspapers, matchsticks, car tyres, coat hangers, teddy bears, and recycled or mass-produced everyday objects. Some projects are temporary installations made for public spaces, so an appraisal should distinguish an original physical work from photographs, documents, or other material associated with an installation.

## Market and appraisal context

David Mach's market should be approached by separating sculpture, assemblage, and installation-related material rather than treating every object under one broad category. The constituent materials are especially relevant because his practice can incorporate magazines, newspapers, matchsticks, tyres, coat hangers, teddy bears, and other mass-produced objects. It is also important to establish whether an item is a durable freestanding work or relates to a temporary public installation. Appraisal research should use public auction records for the closest available matches in work type and material approach. Ownership documentation, attribution evidence, and physical inspection may still be needed before comparable results can support a valuation conclusion.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2153097
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/62346926/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500097793
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mach
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mach
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mach_(Bildhauer)
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-mach-1540
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-mach/