Editing Alison Lapper (section)

==Career==
Lapper uses [[photography]], [[digital imaging]], and [[painting]] to, as she says, question physical normality and beauty, using herself as a subject. She is a member of the [[Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World]] (AMFPA), having joined as a student member and receiving a full membership after her college graduation.<ref name="Lapper-2005"/> One particular influence is the sculpture ''[[Venus de Milo]]'', due to the physical similarities between the idealised classical female statue and Lapper's own body. She has taken part in various British exhibitions, including in the [[Royal Festival Hall]].  In May 2003, Lapper was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for her services for art.

After she had given birth to her son Parys in 2000, she created an installation of photographs of herself with him. Lapper and her son featured on the BBC television documentary ''[[Child of Our Time]]''. In 2006, she published her book ''My Life in My Hands''.<ref name="Lapper-2005"/>