LONDON.- Scottish artist David Mach’s solo exhibition at Griffin Gallery is his first new newspaper installation for 15 years.

Turner prize nominated Mach constructed a gargantuan installation from 20-tonnes of newspaper. Mach’s installation looks like a wave of paper, exploding through one of the gallery walls, and cascading through the room. Mach’s past installations have engulfed objects whole such as cars, furniture and airplanes. The large-scale piece creates an organic volume of colour and texture, characteristic of Mach’s work.

The installation has been largely improvised, and took shape while it was being installed.

Mach’s last newspaper installation Bangers n Mash was exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow in 2002. Mach’s most recent worldwide solo exhibitions include Hong Kong (Opera Gallery, 2012) and New York (Forum Gallery, 2013). Mach’s artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically, these include magazines, newspapers, match sticks and coat hangers.

Mach has also produced iconic public sculpture including Out of Order (1989) in Kingston Upon Thames, a series of 12 red telephone boxes tipped on their side and Big Heids, (1999) in Lanarkshire, a tribute to the steel industry, using three upturned shipping containers weighing 18tons.

David Mach studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee from 1974 to 1979 and subsequently at the Royal College of Art, London from 1979 to 1982. He became a part-time lecturer in the Sculpture School, Kingston University from 1982 to 1993 and he was a lecturer at the Contemporary Art Summer School, Kitakyushu, Japan from 1987 to 1991. He has been Visiting Professor at the Sculpture Department, Edinburgh College of Art since 1999 and in 2000 was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London.

Mach’s first solo exhibition was held at the Lisson Gallery, London in 1982. His international reputation was quickly established with solo and group exhibitions held in the UK and in countries throughout the world. Much of his work is commission-based, including Collage Portrait of Glasgow (commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow), which was unveiled in March 2002 as part of a major solo exhibition of his work at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.

In 1988 Mach was nominated for the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London, and in 1992 he won the Lord Provost’s Prize in Glasgow. He was elected Royal Academician in 1998 and lives and works in London.