Could you be Trafalgar Square art?
Ordinary people will become works of art when they occupy Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth 24 hours a day as part of an artwork by Antony Gormley.
Turner Prize winner Gormley wants the Fourth Plinth to be occupied for 100 consecutive days, 24/7 by members of the public who have volunteered to stand on it for an hour at a time.
The idea will replace Thomas Schutte's Model for a Hotel 2007 which occupied the plinth for more than 18 months.
The artist said: "Through elevation onto the plinth and removal from common ground’ the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol and allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society."
It will need around 2,400 people to take part in the work.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "I am very excited about the prospect of real people standing on the plinth, in one of the great public square of the world,
"I think it is an incredible idea to have a modern depiction of Nelson's boat that will be gazed upon by a statue of the great admiral himself."
Moira Sinclair, Executive Director, Arts Council England, added: "Antony Gormley's will provide a platform for hundreds of members of the public to stand up and take their place amongst the luminaries of Trafalgar Square."
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