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Fourth plinth shortlist includes huge rocket and casts of 850 trans women Mark Brown, Arts correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Casts of the faces of 850 transgender women, abandoned concrete grain silos and an enormous space rocket are among artists’ ideas for the next fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square. Organisers of the popular contemporary art installation revealed six options on Monday, which also include a monumental jewellery tree, a curiously bumpy figure inspired by 16th century German folklore and a work that shines...

Super Inclusive Fourth Plinth Proposals Unveiled In London / / New proposals for the Fourth Plinth project were announced today and include, a towering grain silo filled with plants, the reimagining of a 1914 photograph of pan-Africanist John Chilembwe and a work made from the casts of faces of 850 trans people are among the new proposals for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth revealed today.  The public are invited to have their say about the proposed artworks online Models by Nicole Eisenman, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz are on d...

The London landmark, which was built in 1841 but remained empty due to a lack of funds, has been home to a rolling commission of public artworks for the last two decades.

Samson Kambalu, Antelope © James O Jenkins The latest proposals for artworks to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London were unveiled today. The six maquettes for the works—by the artists Nicole Eisenmann, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz—are on view at the National Gallery, a stone’s throw from the plinth. The new ideas, two of which will be chosen to occupy the plinth in 2022 and 2024, are being shown amid sharp focus on London’s historical monuments, due to the UK government’s attempts to ...

Advertising A huge silver rocket, some stacked planters and the faces of 850 trans people are among the artworks shortlisted to next be sited on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Models of all the works are on display in the Annenberg Court in the National Gallery until July 4 and the public (that’s you and me) are invited to check them out and have their say about them online. Two works will then be selected, one installed in September 2022, when the current occupant of the plinth, Heather Phillipson’s ‘The End’, will reach its… end, and another that will be installed in 2024....