Public invited to give their views as models of ideas for next Trafalgar Square installation go on display

Casts of the faces of 850 transgender women, abandoned concrete grain silos and an enormous space rocket are among artists’ ideas for the next fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square.

Organisers of the popular contemporary art installation revealed six options on Monday, which also include a monumental jewellery tree, a curiously bumpy figure inspired by 16th century German folklore and a work that shines light on the story of John Chilembwe, a Baptist pastor who led a 1915 uprising against colonial rule in what is now Malawi.

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