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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robert Dex and Arts Correspondent

Woman left paralysed in Hackney shooting opens first art exhibition

A woman paralysed from the chest down after being hit by a stray bullet in a Hackney shooting has opened her first art exhibition only a few miles from where she was shot.

Natalie Bignell, 35, is unable to pick up a brush or lift it to a canvas so paints by attaching splints to her hands and also uses digital technology powered by her head movements to manipulate images.

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