Author: Fay Young

  • Is Scotland brave enough to support a Fourth Plinth?

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    Hans Haacke’s statue, Gift Horse, in London’s Trafalgar Square invites questions about power and parliament. Could Scotland’s capital support a ‘fourth plinth’? Where would it be? Who would fund it? And would Scottish artists feel free to question Scottish Government or Scottishness?

    The skeletal 'Gift Horse' by Hans Haake on the Fourth Plinth, London2015