David Mach’s Match Head Art

Using tens of thousands of matchsticks, David Mach creates detailed models of animals, symbols or historical figures.

David, from Scotland, has a passion for art and matchsticks, so he decided to combine them and create unique masterpieces. Using a clay mold he creates a plastic or fiberglass model of whatever he wants to create, and then begins the process of sticking matchsticks on it, one at a time. Most of his creations are made with tens of thousands of colored-tip matchsticks, imported from Japan, and take months to complete and only a second to burn!

David's Website

(Originally posted on the Eclectix homepage "BURN" Issue, August 2011,

 along with the permanent online exhibit of fire-related art, LINK HERE.)

Carved Matchstick Sculptures

These tiny sculptures are all the size of a matchstick! 

A simple and original message from the Makati City Fire Station (above).  Great advertising from DDB.

Above Three: Publicado Por Dr.Fofato, Dos Fosforos Bailando Tango and Santa by Javier Gobai 

 Don’t you just love the fact that he used a match head for Santa’s sack?

 Above: Mythology matchsticks - Venus de Milo, David and Mercurio  by Christian Hernandez

Monkey by Linda Master

Parrot by Linda Master

Artist unknown, Photo by Steven Depolo 

(Originally posted in the Eclectix "BURN" Issue, July 2011,

 along with the permanent online exhibit of fire-related art, LINK HERE.)