It looks like there are going to be lots of newly empty plinths to fill, so a great opportunity to be imaginative. My suggestions, assuming people don't actually need to be dead first:
David Attenborough, stick him everywhere as a proper national legend
Eric Winkle Brown - already has a silly little statue next to the bus stop at Edinburgh Airport, he needs a proper monument
Jodie Comer, because.
I would also like to see Fred Dibnah statue on a massive high plinth, you could run a shoddy rope ladder up there and have him sitting on top drinking a brew with his legs dangling over the side.
Non human I would put a SAR Seaking.
Bird baths or dinosaur statues. I just find statues of people very odd and boring though.
Bikes 🙂
Joe Cocker. Living legend!
A tribute to the frontline key workers that have lost their lives doing their jobs during the virus.
Why not use the plinths for unknown sculptors to display some work for a limited time? The selection could be by way of a raffle for the place with some vetting to ensure we are not going to get another slave trader statue.
Trees
5G masts.
A tribute to the frontline key workers that have lost their lives doing their jobs during the virus.
Our Boris would need two plinths and some rope.
Gallows or a guillotine.
It'll save time when the revolution comes.
Farage, but somewhere reasonably close the sea so that the nation's kids won't have far to carry it in 20 years time.
Portaloo in case of day trippers.
Alcohol gel dispensers
I think the way that the 4th plinth is used in Trafalgar Square is a good model, and really helped to re-engage the public with what 'public' art is, and what it could/should be.
I think there is real strength in regularly changing exibits - history doesn't stand still, why should statues?
Just let Anthony Gormley put whatever he wants to on them.
Other than that maybe have local selections with a chance for the people of the town/city to decide. Obviously any choices would need to be quickly removed if it came to light their choice was a homophobic, racist, nazi sympathizer.
Just let Anthony Gormley put whatever he wants to on them.
That'll be statues of Anthony Gormley then.
Ronnie Pickering.
Bernard Cribbins
Joe Wicks
Obviously any choices would need to be quickly removed if it came to light their choice was a homophobic, racist, nazi sympathizer.
Or whatever the current bogeymen will be in 50/60 years time.
Erm, Kayak, I hate to have to break it to you, but about Joe Cocker...
Some more diverse people - Mary Seacole, Rosalind Franklin, Olaudah Equiano
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Add Len Ganley to that list Murray
Erm, Kayak, I hate to have to break it to you, but about Joe Cocker…
I’m sure he’ll take comfort in that other national treasures, such as Roger Moore, are still living large.
More stuff like this:
Its a monument to all Glasgow firefighters. It would be nice to see more sculptures commemorating groups rather than individuals.
The Environment.
Bomber Harris
We could celebrate the power of love with Fred and Rose West
Maybe some more memorials to the people from overseas who fought alongside Britsh forces in various conflicts.
Bagpuss.
Spike Milligan.
Kevin Keegan wobbling off his bike from Superstars.
More Stan Laurel and Victoria Wood statues.
Barbara Castle.
And a large bronze of a doner kebab foot, rotating on it's spike in front of a grill.
The antithesis of what was occupying the plinth in the first place.
I'd vote for Fred dibnar perfect for Nelson's column when it becomes vacant.
Left field suggestion but what about Ernest Marples?
A forgotten name nowadays but he combined many qualities in one man - a fat, greedy, whore-mongering, tax-dodging, drunk Tory slum landlord who shut half of Britain's railways.
He was actually born down the road from me in Levenshulme - I wonder if there is a blue plaque?
Kevin Keegan wobbling off his bike from Superstars.
I was at a Sportsman's Dinner recently where Kevin Keegan was the speaker.
His PowerPoint presentation didn't work properly and he chucked a massive benny.
He was a better bike racer than he is a public speaker.
Some day, my plinth will come.
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More stuff like this:
Have you seen the work of Ray Lonsdale?
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Plinth occupants should all lisp. Sorry, lithp. That's the rule. So:
Sean Connery, Mike Tyson, Violet Elizabeth Bott, Chris Eubank, er, er, Kristen Schaal, apparently,
Daffy Duck, the list goes on...
nigel farage
then we can have many a happy evening pulling it down and throwing it in the docks.
Stuffed protester, no doubt they will be vilified in the future for the violence and property damage and they can be chucked in the canal (not to mention the white washing of history through the removal of statues they don't like). All this naval gazing about nasty people in the past is detracting from the real message and very real current issues, all very much students union politics.
Leave them empty for a bit. Let people reflect on their emptiness and what it means.
Love the kebab idea!
Someone suggested putting a plaque below the empty plinth stating what used to be up there and why it was originally made. It would then go on to explain how the passage of time has made that view/event wrong in the current climate and how the views/actions of that person have now become enough to have the statue removed. It would then go on to say how the power of change can make the world a better place for everyone if we put our minds to it.
Sounds like a good idea to me as it can turn a bad thing into a force for good and make people realise that they can be a force for good if they put their minds to it.
A football hooligan brandishing a chair.
Dunno what made me think of this, but seems apt:
How the Black Prince charged into Leeds
“Why has the most prominent position in Leeds been given to a colossal equestrian statue of Edward the Black Prince?” many Leeds people asked when it was unveiled in the City Square in 1903.
The answer was simple. In history there was no figure with local associations heroic enough for the site. It was essential an equestrian statue should be selected; the difficulty was to find the subject... The choice fell on the romantic personality of the Black Prince, born in 1330. The origins of the Black Prince name are uncertain. Theories suggest it is derived from his black shield as well as black armour; or that it was applied from a brutal reputation, particularly towards the French.
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Maybe some more memorials to the people from overseas who fought alongside Britsh forces in various conflicts.
Bagpuss.
Who'd of thought it, Bagpuss Spitfire Ace
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And Officer Dibble obvs.
We're famous for humour and eccentricity so how about Terry Jones and Grayson Perry (I'm aware Grayson isn't dead yet)
All this naval gazing about nasty people in the past is detracting from the real message and very real current issues, all very much students union politics.
Wow! If you can't see how having a statue of a slave trader in the city centre is very much part of current issues then you've missed the point by a very significant margin.
Naval gazing?
There surely must be statues of Nelson already?
I think there is real strength in regularly changing exibits – history doesn’t stand still, why should statues?
We could get one of those living statue busker types to impersonate who ever is trending on twitter that week.
For the recently vacated plinth in Bristol I would suggest the black civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson who led the bus boycott in the 1960s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stephenson_(civil_rights_campaigner)
For the recently vacated plinth in Bristol I would suggest the black civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson
You are not the only one. Petition here if you are keen:
https://www.change.org/p/bristol-city-council-replace-the-colston-statue-with-paul-stephenson
Just let Anthony Gormley put whatever he wants to on them.
That’ll be statues of Anthony Gormley then.
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Some day, my plinth will come.
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Very well done!
I think banksy’s suggestion has a lot of merit, putting the damaged statue of Colston back up, with additional statues of some protesters pulling it over, along with appropriate plaque telling the full history
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Some day, my plinth will come.
Spwendid. Simpwy Spwendid
A huge gammon joint in celebration of all that's important in Englandshire
Identical tablets of stone with all the lies 'promises' that were made by the Leave campaign.
They can be crossed off when they are honoured.
It would need to be very weather resistant stone, though.
Nothing. The way the world is going at the moment what ever you put up will offend someone or group so best to not bother and save the money commissioning replacements will cost
Nothing. The way the world is going at the moment what ever you put up will offend someone or group so best to not bother and save the money commissioning replacements will cost
I'm offended by empty plinths.
Stuffed protester, no doubt they will be vilified in the future for the violence and property damage and they can be chucked in the canal (not to mention the white washing of history through the removal of statues they don’t like). All this naval gazing about nasty people in the past is detracting from the real message and very real current issues, all very much students union politics.
youve missed so many points in that statement I dont know where to start!
The way the world is going at the moment what ever you put up will offend someone or group so best to not bother and save the money commissioning replacements will cost
slavery is just 'what ever'
It's ironic that at the same time as a bunch of platforms are losing their dead racists a living racist has lost one of his platforms.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53006006
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You've done me there. That ith vewy well done....
Podium dancer in gold hot pants.
A novelty urinal for the weekend boozers.
Boris Johnson, on horseback, just after winning his second term of office.
Podium dancer in gold hotpants.
Thought Kylie Friday was banned? If not it will be soon.
I'd suggest replacing them all with Freddy Mercury Statues as place holders, at least temporarily, it's something inspiring and fun 'till we can choose others.
also this
And a large bronze of a doner kebab foot, rotating on it’s spike in front of a grill.
A sculpture of a fist painted in the Stars and Stripes being thrust up a Union Jack painted anus?
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Boris Johnson, on horseback, just after winning his second term of office.
Bare chested , Putin style?
Sounds about right !
I’d put Stormzy on one.
Put an upside down plaque on one that says 'base of the world'
(This might be liable for copyright infringement)
As for the Colston plinth, could put a plaque that reads 'Buried at Sea'
Banksy's idea is a good one.
I vote for statues of the Emperor Of Mankind and his 20 sons. OK so yes 9 of them turn evil and some of those 9 turn into literal demons, and 2 of them got deleted entirely for being even bigger dicks than those 9, and the other 9 are pretty much all arseholes in service of a total fascist. But, none of that's going to happen for another 28000 years or so, so at least the bloody statues can stay up for a while.
A body (from one of Iain Banks' novels - Complicity IIRC)?
The original statues they were intended for
^^ Have i read that right? You think they should put the slave trader back up?
TheartistFormerlyKnownAs,
Or why not replace with like for like. Hitler springs to mind, or the devil perhaps?