15 September 2005 – late 2007 – a 3.6-metre (12 ft) tall, 13-tonne Carrara marble torso-bust of an artist who was born with no arms and shortened legs due to phocomelia. Explores representations of beauty and the human form in public space, and was remade on a larger scale for the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony.

Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper Pregnant

24 May 2010 – January 2012 – a depiction of HMS Victory, with sails made of printed fabric in a colourful West African pattern inside a large glass bottle stopped with a cork; the bottle is 4.7 metres long and 2.8 metres in diameter. The work was the first of the commissions to be relocated and is now part of the permanent collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.

Yinka Shonibare, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle

29 September 2016 – 6 March 2018 – a bronze sculpture of a human hand in a thumbs-up gesture, with the thumb greatly elongated. To the top of the thumb, the sculpture is 7 metres (23 ft) tall.

David Shrigley, Really Good

2026 – bronze statue of an "everywoman" with lapis lazuli patina

Tschabalala Self, Lady In Blue

September 2022 – 2024 – sculpture that restages a 1914 photograph of Baptist preacher and pan-Africanist John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley. Chilembwe wears a hat in an act of defiance, as this was illegal at the time.

Samson Kambalu, Antelope

25 July 2013 – 17 February 2015 – a 4.72-metre tall blue sculpture of a domestic cockerel or rooster. The artist has described the cockerel as symbolising "regeneration, awakening and strength".

Katharina Fritsch, Hahn/Cock

2028 – hollow equestrian statue made from translucent green resin.

Andra Ursuța, Untitled

6 July – 14 October 2009 – 2,400 selected members of the public each spent one hour on the plinth to do anything they wished. There was a live feed of the plinth on the Internet sponsored by TV channel Sky Arts.

Antony Gormley, One & Other

September 2024 – casts of the faces of 850 trans people from London and around the world. The "life masks" are arranged around the plinth in the form of a tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations.

Teresa Margolles, 850 Improntas

30 July 2020 – September 2022 – a dollop of whipped cream with an assortment of toppings: a cherry, a fly, and a drone. The drone filmed passers-by and its footage was broadcast on an internet livestream.

Heather Phillipson, The End