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Sandy Nairne, Chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, said it would continue with its remit to commission contemporary art for the plinth.
"There are many other options across London for locating an important memorial to Sir Keith Park and identifying the most appropriate one will have my strong support," he said.
"There are many other options across London for locating an important memorial to Sir Keith Park and identifying the most appropriate one will have my strong support," he said.
Sandy Nairne, Chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, said it would continue with its remit to commission contemporary art for the plinth.
Anyway, whose remit? Did the London ratepayers demand that this plinth be used to display commissioned contemporary art? They did? Well what do you know?
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Hmm. Sounds like Red Ken is willing to support the statue as long as it goes anywhere BUT Traf Sq. Shame... I'm all for modern art, but the current atrocity adorning the Fourth Plinth has all the artistic merit of a mashed turnip.
Given the classical surroundings, and the fact that one of our nation's other great heroes stands on top of a rather tall column in the middle of the Square, I'd say that the Fourth Plinth is an ideal location to honour - permanently - someone who did so much for us.
There is plenty of space in front of the gallery for an additional plinth, if the authorities that be wish to commission more work for the Square. Rather than shuffle Sir Keith to a lesser location, let's invest something in someone we should all be proud of, and establish a prominent and permanent memorial to him.
Given the classical surroundings, and the fact that one of our nation's other great heroes stands on top of a rather tall column in the middle of the Square, I'd say that the Fourth Plinth is an ideal location to honour - permanently - someone who did so much for us.
There is plenty of space in front of the gallery for an additional plinth, if the authorities that be wish to commission more work for the Square. Rather than shuffle Sir Keith to a lesser location, let's invest something in someone we should all be proud of, and establish a prominent and permanent memorial to him.
Update on the 'Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign':
New website at; http://www.sirkeithpark.com/image_library.aspx
New Downing Street petition; http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SirKeithPark/
under 200 signatures so far so please make it far far more.
With this campaign and the one fronted by the Heritage Foundation (President BeeGees Robin Gibb) and backed by the Bomber Command Association for a London Memorial to the 55,573 'Old Lags' who died in that arduous and bloody battle, together with the recent Fighter Command memorials on the Embankment and at Capel le Ferne, there is at last some re-awakening of the debt owed to those who died in these two great struggles against Nazi tyranny. A reminder that the Bomber Command Memorial thread is now on the Aviation History and Nostalgia Forum:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=296590
Please visit it and support the Downing Street petition on there. A post both on this thread and that one to say that you have done so greatly encourages others to do the same and keeps the thread at the top (though in fairness the BC one is locked there as a sticky, thanks to PPRuNe Pop.)
New website at; http://www.sirkeithpark.com/image_library.aspx
New Downing Street petition; http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SirKeithPark/
under 200 signatures so far so please make it far far more.
With this campaign and the one fronted by the Heritage Foundation (President BeeGees Robin Gibb) and backed by the Bomber Command Association for a London Memorial to the 55,573 'Old Lags' who died in that arduous and bloody battle, together with the recent Fighter Command memorials on the Embankment and at Capel le Ferne, there is at last some re-awakening of the debt owed to those who died in these two great struggles against Nazi tyranny. A reminder that the Bomber Command Memorial thread is now on the Aviation History and Nostalgia Forum:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=296590
Please visit it and support the Downing Street petition on there. A post both on this thread and that one to say that you have done so greatly encourages others to do the same and keeps the thread at the top (though in fairness the BC one is locked there as a sticky, thanks to PPRuNe Pop.
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