"If it isn't contentious, it's totally failing."

Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in London's Trafalgar Square will come to an end this morning after 100 days.

For the One and Other project, a different person has stood on the plinth each hour for 24 hours a day.

The first "living statue" was housewife Rachel Wardell who took her place on the plinth at 0900 on Monday 6 July.

The last, medical photographer Emma Burns, 30, from Darlington, is due to step onto the plinth at 0800 BST.
She will be the last of 2,400 people taking part.

Participants were chosen at random by a computer from tens of thousands of entries.

Gormley said at the weekend he had achieved his goal of challenging perceptions of what constituted art.

"If it wasn't disturbing to people, it wouldn't be doing its job," he said. "If it isn't contentious and doesn't get a mixed reaction, it's totally failing."



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