David Mach was an artist who used vicious teddy bears, magazines, match sticks and other strange objects!
I've never heard of him- was his art abstract or was there a theme to a lot of his work I wonder? 
Most of his installations were constructed in public places and were of a temporary nature.
Where was he from and is he still creating art?
David Mach
David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist.
Life and work.
Mach was born in Methil, Fife.
His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines,vicious teddy bears,newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
One example of his early magazine pieces, "Adding Fuel to the Fire", was an installation
attached to them.
After World War II (mainly the visual and performing arts) Minimalism Collage, assemblage, installations.
Related to abstract expressionism was the emergence of combining manufactured items with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture. The work of Robert Rauschenberg exemplifies this trend. His "combines" of the 1950s were forerunners of pop art and installation art, and used assemblages of large physical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photographs. Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, John Chamberlain,