Jason Hall

Antony Gormley’s One & Other living monument for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square will end today, Wednesday, October 14 at 9:00am.

At that time Emma Burns, a 30 year old medical photographer from Darlington, will become the last member of the public to leave the plinth.

Commissioned by the Mayor of London and produced by Artichoke in partnership with Sky Arts, and supported by Arts Council England, One & Other has seen a different person take their place on the Fourth Plinth every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days.

By 9:00am on Wednesday October 14, 2,400 people of all ages, backgrounds and
cultures and from all over the UK will have participated in this unique piece of art. Ranging in age from 16 to 84, they have travelled from as far afield as Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands to Derry, N. Ireland to be part of this collective portrait of the UK of 2009.

Brighton was represented by, among others, Jason Hall, David Hodgson and Gscene columnist Eric Page. Mr Page memorably dressed in an Angel of the North costume - a tribute to Gormley's 66ft statue.

There has been huge engagement with the project around the globe through the One & Other project website, developed for Sky Arts, which streamed the full 100 days in its entirety.

The website has to date received over half a million unique users, who have made over 16,000 comments on plinthers’ profiles since the project began, with over 7.5 million page impressions, and over 35,000 applications.

The weekly highlights programme also saw luminaries from the arts and beyond debating and reflecting on the project, including Grayson Perry, Joan Bakewell, Ken Livingstone and Bettany Hughes.

One & Other has welcomed participants as diverse as astronomers and anthropologists, barmaids and burlesque dancers, poets and plasterers, with activities including cycling, dancing, story-telling, campaigning and fundraising,
cooking, preaching, stripping, puppetry and just meditating.

For more information view:
www.oneandother.co.uk