What is on the Fourth Plinth?

A statue of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park was unveiled on the Fourth Plinth on 4 November 2009 and will be in place for six months. This is not part of the Fourth Plinth commissioning process but is being installed as an exceptional and one-off event, as a tribute to Park's courage and leadership and to coincide with the 70th anniversary of a major turning point in the Second World War.

The Fourth Plinth programme is set to recommence in May 2010, with Yinka Shonibare MBE's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle.

From 1841 until 1999 there was nothing on the Fourth Plinth in the north-west of Trafalgar Square, and it was sometimes referred to as the 'empty plinth'. It is now the location for contemporary art works, commissioned specially from leading artists, which are housed on the plinth for a year or two each. The choice of works is led by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group.