Kay is picked to take place on plinth
Two Midland people have been given the chance to occupy the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
A woman from Oldbury who suffers from an incurable medical condition and a writer from Smethwick will both spend an hour on top of the fourth plinth next month.
They are among 615 successfully chosen from more than 13,000 applicants for artist Antony Gormley's One and Other project which will see a different person taking their place on the plinth every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days.
Mother-of-two Kay Lockley, who lives in Tividale, suffers from lupus and will take her place at 7pm on July 26 in a bid to raise awareness of the condition, which affects the immune system. Adrian Johnson, a 44-year-old writer from Smethwick, has also been picked and will be re-telling tales from the poll tax protests 20 years ago.
Mrs Lockley, 48, was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus eight years ago. It is presently an incurable illness of the immune system, in which the body's defence mechanism begins to attack itself through an excess of antibodies in the blood stream causing inflammation and damage in the joints, muscles and other organs."
Freelance writer and father-of-one Adrian, of Merrivale Road in Smethwick, said he would be taking some props with him to re-enact a fictional work inspired by the poll tax protests which he attended nearly two decades ago.
Family and friends will be joining him to watch him "make a spectacle" of himself at 3pm on July 25.
