The Fourth Plinth
The first project as part of the Sky Arts Artichoke Season was ‘One and Other’ - a live artwork by sculptor Antony Gormley, which took place over 100 days during the summer of 2009.
It was the biggest art event of the summer with 35,000 applications; 7.7million page views and one person every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days making their stand on the plinth.
One & Other was the first project in the 2009 Sky Arts Artichoke Season, and part of our commitment to bringing arts to life on stage, on air, online and on the streets. No fewer than 2,400 people travelled as far afield as the Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands to Derry, N. Ireland to be part of this collective portrait of the UK of 2009.
Diverse participants
One thousand two hundred and eight men and 1192 women aged between 16 and 84 took part. 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, puppetry and meditating. People from every walk of life, and every corner of the UK have become part of history and together created a portrait of humanity.