A Burnham-On-Sea resident appeared on television as a ‘living statue’ in London’s Trafalgar Square at the weekend.
Sue Quatermass, a community development worker in Burnham and Highbridge, was one of the 2,400 people representing each region of the UK by spending an hour alone on an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person is currently making the Plinth their own. On Sunday morning, Sue took centre stage, as pictured here, when her hour was broadcast live online and on digital TV channel Sky Arts.
Sue told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “I was among 29,000 applicants to try and get a place, so was quite shocked when I was chosen.”
“I heard about it on the Web earlier this year and thought that it would be fun to have a try.”
‘I wanted to take part because it is a fantastic opportunity to bring alive the dialogue about what it is that is placed on a pedestal in our national psyche at this particular time in our evolution.”
“Trafalgar Square is known for its celebratory column, victory, the masculine hero – but what of the feminine, who is she in the archives of our history.”
“On the plinth I honoured and celebrated the goddess in all of us. I displayed three goddess banners, loaned from the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, and spoke about the images on the banners.”
“The banners have been painted by Lydia Ruyle and portray just three aspects of the divine feminine. These banners have travelled throughout the world to honour the sacred feminine in all cultures, and it is an honour to bring them to the centre of London and give them a place on the fourth plinth.”
Earlier this year, sculptor Antony Gormley invited people from across the UK to create a ‘living monument’ by occupying the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals.
