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Article: Mother takes stand on 'people's plinth'
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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LONDON - A 35-year-old mother of two became the first of 2,400
people to put herself on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square in the name
of art, though an uninvited activist preceded her on to the
sculpture platform.
Homemaker Rachel Wardell opened Antony Gormley's "One Other", a
24-hour art project that runs 100 days to October 14th and involves
randomly chosen people standing for an hour on the Fourth Plinth,
the vacant platform in Trafalgar Square that the mayor of London
fills each year in an art contest. Wardel's opening act was briefly
disrupted by anti-smoking campaigner Stuart Holmes, who
acrobatically scaled the netting around the plinth and, once on it,
held up a banner that read "Save ...