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Fiona Banner
Shortlisted: 2002

Since 1994, Banner has created handwritten and printed texts - she calls them 'wordscapes' - that retell in meticulous detail the entire narratives or particular scenes from feature films. Her 2002 Turner Prize exhibition included Arsewoman in Wonderland, a printed description of a pornographic film, on 4 x 6 metre sheets layered onto the wall like an over laden billboard. From 1997 she has recreated full stops in various typefaces as magnified abstract forms, in a striking series of drawings and sculptures.

Fiona Banner was born in Merseyside, England in 1966 and currently lives in London. Between 1986 and 1993, she studied at Kingston Polytechnic, followed by Goldsmiths College. Banner was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 for her shows at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen and Dundee Contemporary Arts. In these exhibitions she interwove graphic, sculptural and sound works, as well as extended the sources of her film-based text works.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Fiona Banner in the Tate Collection