Marc Quinn

Alison Lapper Pregnant, 2005 to 2007 The first Mayor of London commission, unveiled on September 15, 2005, was a 3.6-meter figure in white Carrara marble, weighing 13 metric tons, of the artist Alison Lapper, heavily pregnant. Lapper was born with phocomelia, with no arms and shortened legs. Quinn used the most classical material in the sculptor's kit for a body the classical tradition never put on a pedestal, in the same square as Nelson, who lost his right arm in 1797. It made the case for the program's future, and an inflatable version later became a centerpiece of the London 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony.