★★★★★
I love this platform of displaying objects and sculptures which are changing every year. The Fourth Plinth commission team decides which artwork to choose. The Fourth Plinth is located in the Trafalgar Square corner. So the artworks on plinth have been being changed as now we have the artwork titled Antelope by Samson Kambalu.
★★★★★
I love huge displays so made an effort to visit The Fourth Plinth by Heather Phillipson.
It is a cool oversized softserve or cream with a cherry on top.
On the side is this realistic fly and a drone which captures and steams live.
It was difficult finding the link for streaming but managed to find it in the end after I had left!
★★★★★
I love this project. The Fourth Plinth commission team decides which artwork to choose. So the artworks on plinth have been being changed.
Now we have the artwork titled Antelope by Samson Kambalu
Antelope presents Malawian Baptist preacher John Nkologo Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley.
Name of the sculpture derives from the
fact that Chilembwe's hat
rises to two peaks, like
antelope horns.
I wonder what artwork will be next.
★★★★☆
In each corner of Trafalgar Square is a plinth: three have statues of decorated military officers – Henry Havelock, Charles James Napier and King George IV – while the fourth, intended for a statue of William IV, stayed empty for 150 years as the government ran out of money. Cue the Royal Society of Arts, who launched the Fourth Plinth Project in the 1990s. Heather Phillipson’s The End has been on display since 2020, and at the end of 2022 it will be replaced with Antelope by Samson Kambalu.
★★★★☆
Funds ran out when it came to putting a permanent sculpture on the fourth plinth so every couple of years or so, a piece of artwork is commissioned by a panel led by the Lord Mayor. A great idea with some very controversial choices.