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Match Head - Dartboard
Match Head - Dartboard
Match Head - Dartboard

Match Head - Dartboard

Artist (Fife, Scotland, born 1956)
Date1992
Mediummatchsticks and metal
ClassificationsSculptures
DimensionsOverall: Height: 47 cm, Width: 30 cm, Depth: 22 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1992 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions, and income from the Macdonald Bequest.
Copyright© David Mach (2002)
LocationOn Display - Gallery 18
Object numberABDAG010647
About MeMach trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and at the Royal College of Art, London. His art came to the fore in the 1980s when he made work from waste materials, including bottles, tyres, books and magazines. The results are often witty and quirky - famously, he made a huge submarine from old car tyres.
This head is constructed entirely from matchsticks overlaid with wire from a genuine dartboard. The matches have been bonded together by setting fire to them. The placing of the darts was done here in the gallery. The artists threw a round of darts at the Match Head and they remain in the exact positions they were thrown.
More About Me
An old name for a dartboard is "butt"; the word comes from the French word but, meaning "target".
Exhibitions
S R Stewart & Co
mid 20th-late 20th Century