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Lifestyle - In the heart of London's Trafalgar Square, the Fourth Plinth stands as a beacon of contemporary artistic expression, and the next wave of installations
From September, the sculpture on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square will be a montage of “casts of the faces of 850 trans people, most of whom are sex workers”, says the mayor of London. Not all will be from London. “This marginalised community,” says the mayor’s office, “sometimes is unable to access social care”.
Two sculptures from a shortlist of seven will be picked to stand in Trafalgar Square for two years.
Tschabalala Self, Thomas J. Price, and Ruth Ewan are among the seven artists shortlisted for London's Fourth Plinth commission.
Most people in the UK today will not previously have heard of John Chilembwe, but his history is intimately intertwined with that of British colonial rule in Africa and, also, with the impact of the First World War on that continent and its peoples.