‘The Bathgate Face’ - In 1998 Lumir Soukup won the landscape competition for the disused site of the British Rover Truck and Car Factory in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. His proposal was to contour the demolished factory rubble into the form of a human face - the proportions of which were to be based on those of the local community. Using a standard survey form, working with local schools and different community groups – over 1215 local faces were measured and combined. The finished rubble sculpture was covered with topsoil and sown with wild-flowers.
In 2002 the site was bought by Gallacher Homes; the subsequent re-landscaping and remodelling of the Face was done without the artist’s permission. He now disowns it.

Images show Face prior to seeding (with figure on nose for scale) and from the air in its final form.