'Really Good' Gives a Thumbs-Up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth

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Every year or two, the artwork on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is refreshed with a new work. The work is selected by a panel or voted on by the public, and the winning piece for this year is by artist David Shringley from Macclesfield, England. The bronze sculpture features a giant hand giving the "thumb's up" sign, which has become synonymous with social media websites for "liking" something. The artwork is titled "Really Good". This piece originally came to light during the voting in 2013 for the next commission, but it lost out to a horse skeleton sculpture.

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The thumb is deliberately made out of proportion to encourage positivity in the world, and it could not come at a better time in this whirlwind summer politically and socially.

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"Really Good" is the eleventh artwork to be commissioned by the Mayor of London on the Fourth Plinth. Past entries have included giant blue roosters, horse skeletons, ships in glass bottles, and even everyday people. I've not been able to cover all eleven of them, but here are some of the past entries that I have seen:

2015: A horse skeleton with a stock ticker tape
2014: A giant blue rooster
2012: A boy on a rocking horse
2011: Ships in a bottle
2009: members of the public were encouraged to do their own 'thing' on the plinth
2005: limbless pregnant female

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