After 150 years of debate, the sculpture for the fourth, hitherto empty, plinth in Trafalgar Square was chosen on Monday; the winning artwork was Marc Quinn’s marble statue of Lapper, naked, eight months pregnant and as smooth and exposed as a newborn chick. ‘I think it’s absolutely brilliant. I don’t feel the least bit embarrassed about everyone staring at me naked – I wouldn’t have done it if I felt like that. I hope it opens their eyes’.”