Sentence examples for fill the empty plinth from inspiring English sources

He meant it to be for William IV but there was no money to fund the project, so the square has had to get along with just George lV and two generals - Napier and Havelock - until five years ago, when Prue Leith, as deputy chair of the Royal Society of Arts, launched a campaign to fill the empty plinth.

Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP So Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare are the next two artists commissioned to fill the empty "fourth plinth" in London's Trafalgar Square, it was confirmed today - choices that strike me as disappointingly predictable.

In 1998, he was awarded a Henry Moore Fellowship at the British School in Rome and in 1999, he was asked to fill the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, and provided Ecce Homo to huge public acclaim.

How did we fill the empty hours?

To fill the empty walls, he began to buy art.

Larvae began to fill the empty brood chambers.

It is the 12th sculpture to occupy the empty plinth.

The empty plinth has also been subjected to a number of publicity stunts.

What we need now is a big, positive symbol on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

It is an unlikely, entirely fitting solution to the question the empty plinth has always posed.

Popularly known as the "empty plinth", it was only put to use in 1998, when the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce RSSA) commissioned a series of three works to be temporarily displayed on the plinth.