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'Sir Keith Park saved us, and the world'

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Leslie Johnson's sculpture of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park is unveiled on the fourth plinth. Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park commanded 11 Group of Fighter Command, responsible for defending London and the south-east.

Tags: sir keith, RAF, London, hero sir, fourth plinth, Britain, marshal sir, air chief, Keith Park, raf hero

Leave the fourth plinth alone

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Nothing I don't object to a statue of war hero Sir Keith Park, but I'd rather the fourth plinth stayed as it was: empty A model of the statue of Sir Keith Park destined for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Charlotte Kirkham I always...

Tags: Keith Park, fourth plinth, sir keith

Plinth art project draws to close

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

For the One and Other project, a different person has stood on the plinth each hour for 24 hours a day. The first "living statue" was housewife Rachel Wardell who took her place on the plinth at 0900 on Monday 6 July. The last, medical photographer Emma...

Tags: fourth plinth, Emma Burns, art project, Antony Gormley, Darlington, London, 9am today, medical photographer

The women who kill to get babies

London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Yesterday, Trafalgar Square in London became the centre of an appeal to save the life of a British woman on death row. Linda Carty faces execution as early as next summer after being convicted in Texas of abducting and murdering a woman to steal her newborn...

Tags: death row, Linda Carty, Texas, fourth plinth, London

Hello, Mum! Village fete mentality on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Jill Gatcum releases a balloon from the fourth plinth on Monday If there has been, or ever will be, a more dispiriting art project than Antony Gormley's One & Other on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, I cannot imagine what it might be. And that's...

Tags: fourth plinth

Housewife first on Fourth Plinth

London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A housewife is to be the first to stand on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth for Antony Gormley's art project. Rachel Wardell, 35, from Sleaford, in the East Midlands will become Gormley's first 'living statue' for his One and Other project at 0900 BST...

Tags: fourth plinth, Antony Gormley

Plinth 'statues' for July chosen

London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A man pedalling a pink cycle and a woman celebrating her birthday are among those chosen to stand on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. July's 615 "living statues" were chosen from more than 13,000 applicants who wanted to be part of artist Antony Gormley's...

Tags: fourth plinth

Gormley makes fourth plinth invite

London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Antony Gormley 's plan to get 2,400 people to stand on the fourth plinth of London 's Trafalgar Square moves a step closer with the announcement that the door is now open for applications...Anyone over the age of 16 can apply online or by post and participants...

Tags: Antony Gormley, Londonâ, trafalgar square, fourth plinth

Gormley casts public for fourth plinth

Gateshead :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Antony Gormley wants you for the fourth plinth The time has come for anyone who considers themself a real work of art to apply for much more than 15 minutes of fame: one whole hour of monumental grandeur, alone on top of the empty granite plinth in the...

Tags: Antony Gormley, fourth plinth

From Beckham to Lapper, the ever-changing cast

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Built in 1841, the plinth was originally meant for an equestrian statue of William IV. However, after it emerged that insufficient funds were available for the plan, the plinth remained empty and ever since the various authorities have remained undecided...

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