6 7 bioGRAPHY Part 2 1956 - Born in Methil, Fife (Scotland). 1974/79 - Studies at the Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee, Scotland. 1975 - Pat Holmes Memorial Award. 1976/78- Travels abroad within the Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship, then within some SED minor and major travelling scholarships. 1979/82 - Studies at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. 1982 - Drawing Prize of RCA. 1988 - Nomination for the Turner Award, Tate <strong>Gallery</strong>, London. 1989/91 - Contributor in the Contemporary Art Summer Seminar, Kitakyushu. 1992 - Lord Provost Award, RGI, Glasgow. 1994/97 - Commissioned by Darlington Borough Council, Northern Arts (U.K) and Wm Morrison Supermarkets for a large-scale sculpture, entitled Train, settled up on the site of Darlington, to commemorate the first British railway. Measuring 40 metres long, Train is the biggest outdoor sculpture ever realised in England, and was unveiled on June 24, 1997 - First personal exhibition entitled The Last Detail at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris. 1998 - David Mach is elected Member of The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He is selected to participate in the M8 Project, consisting in monumental sculpture installations along the M8 highway, connecting Glasgow to Edinburgh. Solo exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, USA. 1999 - David Mach unveils his monumental sculptures Lanark I, Lanark II and Lanark III along the M8 Highway. Presentation of His n’Hers, two wide coat hangers busts, in The Hague within the outdoors show Den Haag Sculptuur. Realises a monumental collage-mural of more than 75 metres long, commemorating the XX th century for the millennium celebrations at the Millennium Dome, in London. 2000 - Presentation of Spaceman, a wide coat hangers sculpture almost 2.5 metres high, within the exhibition L’Homme qui Marche in the Gardens of the Palais Royal, Paris, and then within the new edition of the outdoor exhibition Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague. Second exhibition solely devoted to his sculpture at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris. Appointed Professor of Sculpture, Royal Academy, London. 2002 - Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Dundee. 2003 - Third personal exhibition at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris. 2004 - Made Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. First Visiting Professor of Inspiration and Discovery at University of Dundee (Scotland). 2007 - In Seine, tarpaulin based on a collage realised with the support of the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont for the National <strong>Opera</strong> of Paris, exhibited on the façade of the Palais Garnier. New personnal exhibition at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris. 2008 - David Mach’s works are featured in London’s Royal Academy of Arts group exhibition “New Prints from the Royal College of Art Selected by Chris Orr RA”. The same year, the Jill George <strong>Gallery</strong> in London hosts a solo exhibition of the artist, entitled “Tête à Tête”. 2009 - The sculptor is featured in London’s Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition as well as in the group exhibition “Vraoum ! trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain” at La Maison Rouge in Paris. 2010 - Once again, David Mach makes the headlines with an impressive gorilla made out of metal coat hangers (Silver streak) displayed at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.