No stranger to outraging convention

FIfe-born artist David Mach has come under fire for his plans to burn a sculpture of the head of Jesus Christ, made from matchsticks heads, as part of his latest exhibition.

It is far from the first time the artist, best known in Scotland for the Big Heids sculptures on the M8, has attracted controversy.

His 1983 anti-war sculpture of a Polaris submarine from tyres caused a huge row.There was a controversy over his 160,000 Temple at Tyre - or "temple of doom" as it was dubbed by an irate councillor - built at Leith Docks as part of Edinburgh's failed bid to become Britain's City of Architecture and Design in 1999.