Contemporary art venue peels back the layers to reveal Scots talent's latest work

GLISTENING multicoloured sheets of metal, peeling from a wall like old posters; a giant model of a vintage shotgun, 30ft high and weighing seven tons, leaning against an enfolding tree in a symbol of man's power embraced by nature.

• Jenny McVean admires Jim Lambie's A Forest, one of five giant new artworks unveiled at Jupiter Artland yesterday. Picture: Neil Hanna

Jupiter Artland, the contemporary sculpture estate in woodlands near Edinburgh airport, celebrated its second anniversary yesterday with the unveiling of five new works by Scottish and UK artists.

Among them, Jim Lambie, the Glasgow artist shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2005 and best known for his fluorescent floors fashioned from multicoloured tape.

His piece, A Forest, is named after a song by The Cure, and inspired by the way pop posters begin to peel from the corners. Jupiter Artland was established by businessman Robert Wilson and his wife Nicky in the woodlands around Bonnington House.

"In the light of everything that's going on, museums and galleries all waiting for their budgets to start suffering, private projects that are really thriving like this are amazing," said Selina Skipwith, keeper of the Fleming Collection of Scottish art.