On my radar: Mark Wallinger’s cultural highlights

The artist on his love of ballet, the broadcasting magic of Danny Baker and his affection for the animated adventures of Top CatBorn in Chigwell, Essex, Wallinger studied art at the Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College. In 1999, his sculpture Ecce Homo was the first work to be displayed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth; the following year, Tate Liverpool put on a retrospective of his work. His Turner prize-winning 2007 installation State Britain, exhibited at Tate Britain, re