Craig Coulthard’s Forest Pitch involves a football pitch hidden within a forest. Trees are felled to make way for a football pitch and used to create a stand, goalposts and a shelter that will act as both changing room and exhibition space. One football match is scheduled to be played on the pitch, open to spectators and once the match has taken place, the pitch will be left to become taken over by nature again. The changing room is kept as a simple exhibition space to document the project.
 
The pitch itself, with surrounding infrastructure will be taken over again by the natural world, to become a living relic of the Olympics, in contrast to the new buildings created in London for the Games.

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.