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Turner Prize 2002 - Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner's giant full stops punctuate her work - in the background a billboard holds a description of a porn film

Find out more about Turner Prize nominee Fiona Banner and see examples of her work in our Online gallery...

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Born in Liverpool, Fiona Banner studied fine art at Kingston Polytechnic before going on to complete an MA at Goldsmiths College in London in 1993.


Fiona Banner	Banner's steel full stops

The 36-year-old, who lives and works in London, has created three-dimensional installations and her work centres on the possibilities of language and its limitations.

Fiona Banner's work centres on language and its limitations, as seen here in Concrete Poetry

Her first solo exhibition was in 1994 at the capital's City Racing venue.

Another example of Banner's Concrete Poetry

Giant full stops punctuate her Turner Prize entry.

Strips of coloured canvas reminiscent of those found in sex shops feature in Banner's work

Her recent show Your Plinth Is My Lap featured "space confusers" - large paper works cut into strips and hung away from the wall to resemble blinds.

The already-controversial banner describing a pornographic film

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Picture credits:

'your plinth is my lap' Installation at Dundee Contemporary Arts 2002
Foreground: Concrete Poetry 2002
Behind: Trixie 1999
Courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London

Stainless Steel Full Stops 2002 Installation at Neur Aachener Kunstverien
Courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London

Fiona Banner 2002 Portrait by: Andrew Dunkley,
copyright Tate Photography
Courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London

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