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| 'Thumbs up' for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth artwork | 'Thumbs up' for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth artwork |
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| The 11th artwork to sit on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth is to be unveiled later. | |
| Really Good by David Shrigley shows a seven-metre-high hand giving a thumbs up which the artist hopes will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. | Really Good by David Shrigley shows a seven-metre-high hand giving a thumbs up which the artist hopes will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
| It has been cast in bronze with the same dark patina as the other statues in Trafalgar Square. | It has been cast in bronze with the same dark patina as the other statues in Trafalgar Square. |
| The Fourth Plinth Programme invites world-class artists to make new works for the capital. | The Fourth Plinth Programme invites world-class artists to make new works for the capital. |
| David Shrigley | David Shrigley |
| The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the "positivity and humour" in Really Good "truly encapsulated the spirit of London". | The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the "positivity and humour" in Really Good "truly encapsulated the spirit of London". |
| "The changing artworks on Fourth Plinth continue to be a source of delight, discussion and debate and I am proud to be the mayor of a city that has such an energetic and vibrant cultural life," he added. | "The changing artworks on Fourth Plinth continue to be a source of delight, discussion and debate and I am proud to be the mayor of a city that has such an energetic and vibrant cultural life," he added. |
| Really Good replaces Gift Horse, a skeletal sculpture that displayed a live feed from the London Stock Exchange by German artist Hans Haacke. | Really Good replaces Gift Horse, a skeletal sculpture that displayed a live feed from the London Stock Exchange by German artist Hans Haacke. |
| Mark Wallinger's figure Ecce Homo was the first piece to stand on the empty plinth - in the north-west corner of the square - in 1999. | |
| Other works included Alison Lapper Pregnant by Marc Quinn (2005), Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare (2010) and Elmgreen and Dragset's Powerless Structures, Fig 101 - a sculpture of a boy astride his rocking horse. | Other works included Alison Lapper Pregnant by Marc Quinn (2005), Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare (2010) and Elmgreen and Dragset's Powerless Structures, Fig 101 - a sculpture of a boy astride his rocking horse. |