Fiona Banner

Born:
1966
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • Several of the best known UK artists have joined forces to donate works to an online auction to benefit the people affected by the Grenfell fire disas

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • On occasion of Women's history month and international women's day, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has launched and social media campaign #5WomenArtists, challenging internet users worldwide to name five women artists, in order to call "attention to the inequity women artists face" and to bring awareness to a larger audience.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The ongoing exhibition of British artist Fiona Banner's works, titled 'Au Cœur des Ténèbres', on display at the mfc-michèle didier gallery in Paris, concludes on January 7, 2017.

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  • It won’t be long until the nights start drawing in, and now that Dame Barbara Windsor has flicked the switch on the famous Blackpool illuminations, the seaside town is once again magically swathed in an abundance of artificial light.

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  • The De La Warr Pavilion is presenting an exhibition of Peter Blake's Alphabets Letters & Numbers, comprising three print series, Alphabet (1991), An Alphabet (2007) and Appropriated Alphabets (2013), and a personally chosen selection of related original artworks.

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  • The Art Car Boot Fair is all revved up and ready to go to the seaside with stacks of art, originals & just for the day editions and very special deals.

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  • In “Confusion of Tongues,” a group of Courtauld Institute students explores the relationship between art and language through works by Oskar Kokoschka, Susan Hiller, Fiona Banner, and more.

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  • THE BASTARD WORD. Flickering in the dark, these rough, hand hewn neon letters announce the central concern of Fiona Banner’s work: the power, plasticity, and limitations of language and communication. Banner’s work is the subject of a major solo exhibition, currently showing at Ikon Gallery, in Birmingham, from October 10, 2015 – January 17, 2016. In the following interview, MutualArt asks the artist about the development of her work, her obsession with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and the frustrations and liberations of language.

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  • Birmingham’s internationally renowned Ikon Gallery is raising funds for its 50th Anniversary Endowment Fund with an auction of artworks donated by some of the most important contemporary artists, all of whom have exhibited at the gallery.

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  • Amid the gasping and the stroking of chins that have greeted Fiona Banner's new installation of a dangling Harrier jet in Tate Britain's

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  • Alice Liddell inspired Lewis Carroll, whose books inspired a thousand art works. But are they any good? Adrian Searle heads down the rabbit hole at Tate Liverpool's new show

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  • As the gates of the Frieze art fair open, so to do the doors of every contemporary gallery in London – offering a veritable peacock's parade

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  • The most popular show in the country? Have a guess. The annual list of the most visited exhibitions and art galleries of the year, compiled

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  • Forget The Dorchester. The best London city views are from high above Southbank Centre, which is precisely where artist Fiona Banner chose to erect

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  • There they are: two hi-tech war toys, phallic and fascinating. The Harrier jump jet hangs just inside the entrance of the long gallery, framed

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  • Now here's a compelling subject for an exhibition: mind-altering drugs. Tracing the history of narcotics across ages and continents from the ancient Egyptians' use of opiates

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  • Fiona Banner's practice centres on the problems and possibilities of language, both written and metaphorical. From her 'wordscapes' to her use

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  • The atmosphere in Number 10 may be tense amid allegations of bullying and with an election looming, but the pictures on the walls tell a different

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  • It is set to be one of the must-do experiences of 2012, the chance to spend an exclusive night in a designer hotel with a panoramic view of London

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  • The unusual name of this new exhibition by UK artist Fiona Banner is inspired by the sound of helicopters as portrayed in comic books and storyboards.

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  • Alice Liddell inspired Lewis Carroll, whose books inspired a thousand art works. But are they any good? Adrian Searle heads down the rabbit hole at Tate Liverpool's new show

    Read More
  • As the gates of the Frieze art fair open, so to do the doors of every contemporary gallery in London – offering a veritable peacock's parade

    Read More
  • The most popular show in the country? Have a guess. The annual list of the most visited exhibitions and art galleries of the year, compiled

    Read More
  • Forget The Dorchester. The best London city views are from high above Southbank Centre, which is precisely where artist Fiona Banner chose to erect

    Read More
  • There they are: two hi-tech war toys, phallic and fascinating. The Harrier jump jet hangs just inside the entrance of the long gallery, framed

    Read More
  • Fiona Banner's practice centres on the problems and possibilities of language, both written and metaphorical. From her 'wordscapes' to her use

    Read More
  • The atmosphere in Number 10 may be tense amid allegations of bullying and with an election looming, but the pictures on the walls tell a different

    Read More
  • It is set to be one of the must-do experiences of 2012, the chance to spend an exclusive night in a designer hotel with a panoramic view of London

    Read More
BIOGRAPHY

b. 1966, Merseyside, England

Much of Fiona Banner’s work explores the problems and possibilities of written language. Her early work took the form of ‘wordscapes’ or ‘still films’ – blow-by-blow accounts written in her own words of feature films, (whose subjects range from war to porn) or sequences of events. These pieces took the form of solid single blocks of text, often the same shape and size as a cinema screen. Banner’s current work encompasses sculpture, drawing and installation but text is still at the heart of her practice. She recently turned her attention to the idea of the classic, art-historical nude, observing a life model and transcribing the pose and form in a similar vein to her earlier transcription of films. Often using parts of military aircraft as the support for these descriptions, Banner juxtaposes the brutal and the sensual, performing an almost complete cycle of intimacy and alienation.

Recent exhibitions include Buoys Boys, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2016), Scroll Down And Keep Scrolling, a traveling solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2015), and Kunsthalle Nuernberg (2016), FONT, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery (2015), Wp Wp Wp, a solo exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2014), Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead, an exhibition at PEER, London (2014), The Vanity Press, a solo exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh (2013), The Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain (2010). She has recently presented solo shows at Musee D’art De Joliette, Joliette, Canada (2010), Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (2007), The Power Plant, Toronto (2007), Frith Street Gallery, London (2006) and Printed Matter, New York (2006). Her work has been included in “Parade and Processions” at Parasol Unit, London (2009), “That was then...this is Now” at MOMA, New York (2008), “BODYPOLITCX” at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2007), “Drawing 2007” at The Drawing Room, London (2007) and “Concrete Language” at CAG – Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (2006). In 2002, she was short-listed for the Turner Prize presented at Tate Britain, London.

Fiona Banner is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin and 1301PE, Los Angeles.


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