Forest Pitch will create a football pitch hidden within a forest. Forestry trees will be felled to make way for the pitch and used to create goalposts, a shelter and other infrastructure.
The pitch will host two football matches in 2012, one male, one female, made up of amateurs from around Scotland who have taken up British citizenship since 2000. Spectators will be invited to represent the players' families and the local community, and the intervals between matches will be filled with performances and music forming a unique sporting and artistic event.
After the event, the pitch will be taken over again by the natural world to become a living relic of the London 2012 Olympics, while the shelter will remain as a simple exhibition space to document the project.
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Craig Coulthard was born in West Germany in 1981. He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2002, in which time he won the Sir Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal. In 2003 he was a founder member of the Embassy Gallery, and in 2005 won the Sir William Gillies Bequest Award and was chosen to exhibit in Bloombergs New Contemporaries. After graduating with a Masters from eca in 2006, his graduate work was sold to Paisley Museum. He has exhibited at the Collective, Camden Arts Centre, the Athens Biennale, Loughborough University, the Barbican and the RSA. In late 2008 he completed a 3 month residency at Atelier Hoherweg in Dusseldorf. He also writes and performs music as Randan Discotheque. He currently lives and works in Edinburgh.