A TAVISTOCK student who was selected from 33,000 applicants to stand on a plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of a live artwork project this week said the experience was 'brilliant and lots of fun'.

Eve Atkinson spent an hour on the Fourth Plinth dressed as a pea pod to mark the United Nation's National Day of Peace, and enjoyed plenty of audience participation.

'I found things to do for the whole hour which was not the case with some of the other plinthers,' said the A-level drama student.

'I talked to people and I wrote slogans to do with peace and peas, and everybody was shouting them like "give peas a chance" and "make peas not war".

'It was brilliant — everyone was really friendly. There were a few drunken hecklers but they were all really fun. No-one gave me a hard time.

'I found it less nerve-wracking than being on stage doing a performance.'

Some 2,400 people are spending one hour on a plinth as part of the 'One and Other' live artwork project by sculptor Antony Gormley who over the summer has tried to create a representation of the whole of humanity via the living monument.