Roddy on the Plinth

14/08/2009 by Roddy.

Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, as part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other project, a different person will make the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square their own.  At 14.00 on Monday 17^th August, it will be the turn of Pipe Major Roddy Deans to turn the plinth Scottish.This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley has invited the public to help create an astonishing living monument. He has asked the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.

“While on the Plinth, I need to do something that will embrace those who are viewing this incredible artistic experiment.” said Roddy

As a professional bagpipe player and purveyor of all things Scottish, Roddy is planning a bagpipe concert and some haggis with its traditional address to mark Robert Burns’s 250 year anniversary.

“I really want to turn a few heads in Trafalgar Square and take a part of Scotland into the centre of London” said Roddy.

Roddy will be in full highland regalia and will certainly stand out not only from the three permanently occupied plinths, but also from the people below in Trafalgar square.

“A few hundred years ago I would have been hung drawn and quartered for such an ambitious show of Scottishness” he added.

“It was quite coincidental that my slot was to be the week after the world pipe band championships and Piping live festival in Glasgow.  It is good to see bagpipes in use in the 21^st century” said Roddy.

An online feed of Roddy’s performance on the Plinth can be seen 2-3pm on Monday 17^th August, on http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

More details of Roddy the piper can be found at www.roddythepiper.com

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