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Antony Gormley’s One & Other
Watch the plinth highlights on Sky Arts
One & Other was artist Antony Gormley’s extraordinary commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square where over 100 days, from 6 July – 14 October 2009, 2,400 people from around the UK took their turn occupying the plinth continuously for an hour each. The ‘plinthers’ helped create a unique living monument, collectively termed ‘a portrait of Britain’.
With the help our our creative partners Artichoke, we took the project to a global audience through an interactive website with 24 hour live multicamera webstream and a weekly television highlights show presented live from Trafalgar Square.
So, who was on the plinth?
1,210 men and 1,190 women
Youngest plinther was 16 years old, oldest 84
95 pensioners and 131 teenagers
127 teachers and 332 students
1 person had to be rescued
3 people jumped off
11 proposals of marriage, one declined
13 people bared all on the plinth, one was told to put his pants back on…
One & Other - the offical book
The One & Other book contains studio portraits of all the ‘plinthers’ prior to their appearance as we capture the emotional intensity and the personally transformative effect that was created by one of the most extraordinary works of public art in our time.
CLICK THIS WAY FOR THE VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF ONE & OTHER ON OUR DEDICATED ONE & OTHER WEBSITE >>






