ONE OF the artists taking part in the artwork in London’s Trafalgar Square is Neil Scott, a former pupil at Blairgowrie High School.

Neil was picked to participate in creating a unique living monument on the square’s fourth plinth, titled One and Other by Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North.

One and Other will run for 100 days from July 6 to October 14 and will involve 2400 people from all over the UK who will stand on the plinth for an hour each.

The rules are simple— participants must stand on the plinth alone, for the hour; they can do whatever they want, if it is legal; and they can take anything they can carry.

Neil was allocated 7am to 8am today, during which he plans to sketch passers-by and hand out the sketches randomly.

Details can be found at www.oneandother.co.uk where the whole 100-day event is to be streamed online from a webcam.

Next month, Neil is also running an art workshop, with artist friends, at the Pittenweem Children’s Arts Festival, from August 1 to 9 on the theme of Art on the Beach.

Visitors, of all ages, are invited to use materials, natural and man-made, scavenged from East Neuk beaches to create any form of recycled art they choose.

This follows on from the theme of participative art that Neil explored while studying fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.

There, he invited visitors to the degree show last year to use a vast collection of recycled materials to create their own works in the grounds of the college.