Alison Lapper

Alison Lapper MBE is an artist, television presenter, speaker and arts charity patron. Alison has a first class honours degree from Brighton University and is a member of the mouth and foot painting artists.

In 2016 after featuring in lots of documentaries, Alison began a new career as a TV presenter. She co-presented ‘No body’s perfect’ for BBC4, followed by her own take on William Blake for Sky Arts in 2017. Alison Lapper is a well known public figure and regularly talks about her life, she was born with no arms or shortened legs, she was institutionalised at six weeks old and spent the next 17 years at Chailey Heritage in Sussex.

At the age of 19, she got her driving licence and her own flat. She has even written an autobiography ‘My life in my hands’  which has been translated into nine languages.

In 200 Marc Quinn erected a statue of Alison Lapper pregnant in Trafalgar Square. He wanted the statue as the fourth plinth to celebrate ‘Someone who had conquered the outside world.’ In 2012 an inflatable version was used at the Paralympics games opening cemetery.

 

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