Arts

Goodbye to the Plinthers

For the first time in many years I spent a few hours on my own ambling round London today. It's something I used to do a lot as a student.

And with Antony Gormley's One and Other project wrapping up in a couple of days I had to drop by the fourth plinth. I've seen about a dozen or so of the "plinthers", but this evening's was probably the best, a woman in bright blue robes spent the entire hour doing graceful Tai Chi in the gathering dusk. It looks strange on the recording, but was perfect in the setting of Trafalgar Square.

For me it's what the project should have been about all along - moving statues, people doing "their thing" rather than the talent show it had frequently become.