Alison Lapper - critics

• Waldemar Januszczak - disability and Quinn sculpture


  "What a huge blow was struck for issues of disability by Quinn's moment of sculptural genius"
• Ann Millet - shock


  "criticized for capitalising on the shock value of disability"
• Alison Lapper - tribute to 


  "A modern tribute to femininity, disability and motherhood"
• Marc Quinn - broken artifacts 


  BA visit - "how the crows admired the fragmented classical statuary"
• Marc Quinn - acceptable and not 


  "That gap between Art and Life, what is acceptable in art and unacceptable in life, seemed like an interesting area to explore"
• Marc Quinn - questioning perfection


  'By using "imperfect" bodies i'm brining into question the very notion of perfection central to neo-classical project'
• Marc Quinn - Nelson disabled 


  "Nelson himself had lost an arm and his sight in one eye, he was never thought of as disabled"
• Marc Quinn - male sculpture and Alison


  "Most public monumental sculpture is celebrating dead, male, military heroes, and Alison seemed to to me to be the opposite"
• Marc Quinn - commemorate future 


  "other sculptures...commemorate the past...she commemorates the future potential of humanity, possibility and hope"
• Marc Quinn - marble and heroes


  "Marble is the material used to commemorate heroes, and these people seem to me to be a new kind of hero"
• James Romaine - medium is important 


  "a work whose material, as a medium of incarnation, is pivotal to its meaning"
• James Romaine - Quinn now, Lapper now and future 


  "Quinn is a sculptor of time, and Lapper is both present and future"
• Richard Dorment - political correctness 


  "It’s not Miss Lapper whom Quinn has put on a pedestal in the heart of London, but political correctness”
• Quinn - celebrating differences

  • “The sculpture celebrates in a very public way the beauty of  different body”
• Quinn - clean sculpture

  • not like Rodin or Michelangelo - 'I wanted it to be absolutely clean'