Sentences with phrase «square plinth»

The Corinthian column standard, on a square plinth adorned with gilt - bronze laurel wreaths above a base with foliate tongue and dart molding.

The tapered square plinth base, with mythological animal motifs, leads up to the highly ornate body...

Also included is Rachel Whiteread's commission Maquette for Trafalgar Square Plinth, a translucent cast of the square's fourth plinth that was displayed upon it for four months in 2001.

The exhibition is laid out chronologically and the sections relate thematically to Whiteread's principal sculptural projects such as Floors, Beds and Mattresses, House, Holocaust Memorial, Water Tower, and Trafalgar Square Plinth.

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A neo-classic design revival, the Lavigne Table Lamp from Surya features a stack of pyramid, ball and square plinth shapes in antiqued gold glass.

Not exact matches

The London mayor Boris Johnson initially backed plans to erect a statue of the former prime minister on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square, but later backed away after it was attacked as «crass».

Commander John Muxworthy, a Lt Commander on the SS Canberra during the Falklands conflict, yesterday called for a permanent statue commemorating Lady Thatcher to be placed on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Other examples of unconventional, yet successful, job applications include the advertising executive who caught potential employers» attention by posting a message that popped up every time they Googled themselves, and the graduate who stood on a plinth in Trafalgar Square and unfurled a giant version of his CV.

I won't list all the other activities we have carried out across our businesses over the last decade, but from events and print and digital mail - outs, to promotional materials and adverts — and having an author dress up as Lord Lucan and stand on a plinth in Trafalgar Square — we have never been shy about trying absolutely anything to get our books noticed.

Trafalgar Square is home to Nelson's Column, iconic stone lions, the famous Fourth Plinth and a lot of pigeons.

Casting a shadow across the wave mosaics of this beautiful plaza is the enormous plinth and statue of Dom Pedro IV and at the end of the square is the impressive National Theatre of Lisbon.

Spa Suites offer 60 square metres of space, carefully tailored to augment the processes of relaxation and rejuvenation: exclusive to the Suite is an open, plinth - mounted spa bath that is both sophisticated and sensual, and an Ergomotion King size bed offering multiple massage therapies and zero - gravity function and a Nespresso machine.

Installations such as Field (1991, Arts Council Collection), which has been re-made by local communities across the world, and major public works such as Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, near Liverpool), One & Other (2009, a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square, London) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, Holland) are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

In 2010, the artist's sculpture Nelson's Ship in a Bottle was selected for the prestigious Fourth Plinth commission series in London's Trafalgar Square and was on view until January, 2012.

In 2010, the artist's sculpture Nelson's Ship in a Bottle was selected for the prestigious Fourth Plinth commission series in London's Trafalgar Square.

Commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, the 4.7 m high sculpture will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 mPlinth Commissioning Programme, the 4.7 m high sculpture will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 mplinth for 18 months.

The Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group invited Fritsch to create the sculpture Hahn / Cock, which was unveiled in Trafalgar Square in the summer of 2013 and is currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Bove's Coral Sculpture (2008) is presented on a square of concrete on a bronze frame of a plinth.

This rising generation have themselves benefited from the prominence of works such as Antony Gormley's Angel of the North, Artangel's extraordinary 30 years of commissions, including Rachel Whiteread's House and Michael Landy's Break Down, and the changing occupants of Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.

• From 29 September, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.

British actress Joanna Lumley will unveil the new Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square by Elmgreen & Dragset, on Thursday 23rd February at 9.30 am.

As Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, he leads an expert set of artists and curators selecting works for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square on behalf of the Mayor of London.

Since then Whiteread has been on the receiving end of some worthy public commissions, including the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna of an entire library with visible traces of books and shelves.

The London Summer Art Map is a practical guide to discovering art across the city, including the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park and Sculpture in the City.

Highlights of the Happening to Be exhibition, which is open to the public, include a maquette of Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by gallery artist and Turner prize nominee Yinka Shonibare MBE, first unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Shonibare's work, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle» was the 2010 Fourth Plinth Commission, and was displayed in Trafalgar Square, London, until January 2012.

Antony Gormley's invitation in 2010 for people to take their place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square was similarly memorable not because someone struck a fine pose or told a good joke; it was not Britian's Got Talent.

Unlike the other plinths on Trafalgar Square, the fourth plinth directly outside the National Gallery, doesn't have a permanent statue on it.

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In 2003, Sokari's NO - O - War No - O - War - R was shortlisted for the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth; two years later, she was awarded a CBE in recognition of her services to art.

His work attracted a wide audience once more when Ecce Homo occupied the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999.

Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, and the work was also featured as the center sculpture of the 2012 London Paralympics.

It was commissioned by the Greater London Authority in 2009 for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, where it was displayed from May 2010 to January 2012.

Leading British artist, Antony Gormley, today launched his nationwide work, One & Other, by inviting people, aged 16 and over, from across the UK to participate in the creation of a unique living monument on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Michael Rakowitz's The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square.

The work echoes the sails from Yinka Shonibare's Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle», now on permanent display outside the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Main image: Michael Rakowitz's submissions for the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square.

Rachel Wardell will be the first person to step onto the plinth at 9 am on Monday 6th July, and wants to raise awareness for the NSPCC A housewife from Sleaford, a nurse from Brighton, and a Sri Lankan student from London will all take their places on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square on Monday -LSplinth at 9 am on Monday 6th July, and wants to raise awareness for the NSPCC A housewife from Sleaford, a nurse from Brighton, and a Sri Lankan student from London will all take their places on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square on Monday -LSPlinth in Trafalgar Square on Monday -LSB-...]

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Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London / UK, October 14, 2009.

The fourth plinth on the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in London, designed by Sir Charles Barry and built in 1841, was intended to hold a statue of William IV, but remained empty due to insufficient funds.

Their winning Fourth Plinth Commission, Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, depicting a child astride his rocking horse, was on view from 2012 to 2013 in Trafalgar Square, London, and they recently curated an extensive public art program in Munich entitled A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich (2013).

Works by Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson will be the next two occupants of London square's north - west plinth

The 4.7 m high sculpture titled «Hahn / Cock» will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 months.

London mayor Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch's Hahn / Cock, the latest artwork to fill square's empty plinth

It involves a rolling program of contemporary art commissions to be installed temporarily on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

The result had complex semiotic relationships with Barry's plinth, Trafalgar Square, and the metropolitan residue of imperial might, yet it declined to make those relationships explicit.

In 2010, he won the Wollaston Award for his work Crash Willy in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and Nelson's Ship in a Bottle became his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

A giant blue rooster by Katharina Fritsch and a curly haired boy on a rocking horse by Elmgreen & Dragset are the next two sculptures chosen for the Fourth Plinth platform in London's Trafalgar Square.