Newhouse – The Big Heids

Situated beside the M8 motorway are three giant heads built from thousands of welded steel connections and painted red. They are positioned on upturned freight containers. Each head measures approximately 10 metres in height.

This is one of many pieces of public art that has been installed along the motorway, with two in Lanarkshire, including the Woman, Man, Sun & Moon monument less than 1 mile to the East.

Known as The Big Heids and installed in 1999, these are a tribute to Lanarkshire’s steel industry. They are modelled on real people, all of whom were local volunteers, two men and one woman picked at random on the streets of Motherwell. Their faces have been recreated with steel tubes. The nearby Clydesdale Steelworks in Mossend made tubes similar to the ones used for these structures.

They were designed by Scottish sculptor David Mach.

To see more works by David Mach, click HERE.

To visit David Mach’s website, click HERE.