The East Neuk Festival has done it again with its latest sand sculpture from the company that brought you a pumpkin carving of Trump.

It was back in 2014 that the East Neuk Festival in Scotland made headlines when it celebrated its tenth year by commissioning a giant anamorphic portrait of Franz Schubert on Fife’s Elie Beach.

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This year, their 2017 Schubertiad saw them commissioning a new sand sculpture in the form of a huge bust of the Viennese Romantic created by Claire Jamieson and Jamie Wardley of Sand in Your Eye. The gigantic head was sculpted from 20 tonnes of sand and sits imposingly on East Neuk’s Crail High Street.

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Unlike the 2014 artwork that was designed to disappear under the incoming tide, the latest creation was built to last at least as long as the Festival, which concluded on July 2. The five-day event featured a range of songs and chamber works from Schubert’s most productive decade (1816-1826) performed by musicians and leading international artists including pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, the Belcea Quartet and baritone Thomas Oliemans accompanied...