ACCLAIMED artist Toby Paterson has unveiled his final Dunfermline piece at the town's new £12.4 million museum.

With the help of £135,000 from Tesco, the Glaswegian was commissioned to create a series of permanent art works for the town.

And the last one has been installed in the entrance of the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, which opens to the public on Thursday May 18.

Toby said: "I'm absolutely delighted to have had the opportunity to realise a permanent work at the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries.

"It's fantastic as an artist to be able to make a contribution to such a significant new public building, especially one that sits in a wider, nationally significant historical context and that brings together past and present in such a vibrant way."

The work, titled Cluster Relief (Dunfermline Remnant), was created especially for the museum and is a series of aluminium panels which pick up the colour palette of material in the new facility and the surrounding Heritage Quarter.

It's the culmination of a four year project, funded through one of the conditions of Fife Council's planning permission for Tesco's store on Carnegie Drive.

Toby, who has also created art work for the BBC Scotland HQ in Glasgow and for the London Olympics, said: "My sculptural aluminium relief is the final element in a series of public artworks made especially for Dunfermline's town centre in association with Fife Council between 2014 and 2016.

"It was initially proposed for an outdoor location, but this ultimate version of the work uses a colour palette developed to reflect both its surroundings within the Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries and my experiences of exploring the town's streets and buildings.

"Although I studied painting at Glasgow School of Art, I frequently make work outside conventional gallery settings as a way of reflecting the inspiration I find in the built environments that surround us.

"For me, this project has proven to be a perfect encapsulation of those aims.”

As part of a legal agreement, Tesco gave £135,000 for public art work and the council's west planning committee gave the go-ahead for the project, called 'Points of Contact', in November 2013.

At the time the art works were going to be an ‘Opera House Plaque’ in Douglas Street, ‘tower’ sculptures outside the bus station and New Row, a birdbath and public convenience sign in Maygate and the aluminium panels in Walmer Drive, with a sixth piece, a 'large work on paper', originally meant for the new library.

It was to focus on the experience of walking around Dunfermline, providing new landmarks and highlighting the city’s buildings and striking views.

The "creative addition" was welcomed by committee chair Councillor Bobby Clelland but the then SNP councillor David Mogg dismissed it as a “Labour attempt to make a laughing stock of Dunfermline” and an exercise in “defacing the public streets of the town”.

Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries will open on Thursday May 18.

A range of launch events are also being planned to suit all age groups.

For more information please visit www.onfife.com/dclg.