Parys and Alison, pictured here in 2014, shared a close bond The director of a contemporary art gallery once said: “If you’ve got an Alison Lapper up on the wall, you’ve got to justify it ...

The £150,000 sculpture called Alison Lapper Pregnant - she was expecting her son Parys when she posed in 1999 - will go on show in the shadow of the Square's other, more illustrious occupants ...

but this doesn’t quite mesh with the likes of Antony Gormley and Alison Lapper responding emotionally and eloquently to the power of the art. Lapper, who lost her son, Parys, when he was 19 ...

Alison Lapper – an artist ... emerges from the most difficult period of her life after the loss of her son Parys.