The Kelpies: why Scotland's new public art is just a pile of horse poo

Andy Scott's mammoth £5m horse sculpture has just been unveiled in Falkirk. It's big, bold and bland, but is it really art? Neigh!

Scotland has unveiled the latest misbegotten "masterpiece" of public art. It is big. It is bold. And it is rotten.

Glasgow's Andy Scott is the artist responsible for the Kelpies, a sculpture of colossal Clydesdale horse heads that tower 30 metres over Helix Park, Falkirk, near the M9 motorway. What for? For "regeneration", of course. It is claimed the £5m, 300-tonne sculptures will bring in £1.5m a year through guided tours providing enough people mistake them for a worthwhile work of art.

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