Fiona Banner's work encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation and text, and demonstrates a long-standing fascination with the emblem of fighter aircraft and their role within culture and especially as presented on film.
13 Facts About Fiona Banner
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Fiona Banner's work has been exhibited in prominent international venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Hayward Gallery, London.
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Fiona Banner was born on Merseyside, North West England in 1966.
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Fiona Banner studied at Kingston University and completed her MA at Goldsmiths College of Art in 1993.
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Since graduating from Goldsmiths College of Art, Banner has continued to evolve an important, considered and interrelated practice, rooted in language.
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Since 1994 Fiona Banner has created handwritten and printed texts - 'wordscapes' - that retell in her own words entire feature films, including Point Break and The Desert, or particular scenarios in detail.
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Fiona Banner's work took the form of solid single blocks of text, often the same shape and size as a cinema screen.
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Fiona Banner investigates the formal components of written language, giving significance to the symbols that punctuate sentences.
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For Fiona Banner, the act of publishing is itself a performative one.
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Fiona Banner's own Arsewoman in Wonderland, presented in the Turner Prize exhibition, is a 4 x 6 m printed description of the film pasted and layered sheet after sheet onto the wall like and overladen billboard.
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Fiona Banner was then photographed with the ISBN tattooed on her lower back.
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Fiona Banner's work includes sculpture, drawing and installation; text is the core of her oeuvre.
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Fiona Banner is one of the "key names", along with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood, Tacita Dean and Douglas Gordon, of the Young British Artists.