Jody Cundy, ‘Official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Posters Unveiled’, 6 November 2011, http://www. Furthermore this verbal encounter reflects her interest in the act of reading which draws together the processes of looking and meaning. Fiona Banner’s practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and publishing.

The tapestry was a propaganda triumph, which influences the way history depicts the invasion to this day. Collecting is a recurrent theme in Banner’s work, and she has compiled this collection over a period of twenty years.

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She has said that these works are an attempt to describe something through close observation without the device of editing. Banner is interested in the tradition of the nude and the issues that surround its depiction, such as questions about gender and the history of description per se. In response to requests from the Legal Deposit Office The Vanity Press produced a comprehensive bound catalogue of the ISBN artworks and the data information forms used to register them. The title of the work refers to the expressive and experimental nature of the piece with its drips and washes of ink.Banner is best known for her ‘wordscapes’, highly subjective written accounts that often retell entire Hollywood feature films or sequences of events. From her ‘wordscapes’ to her use of found and transformed military aircraft, Banner juxtaposes the brutal and the sensual, performing a complete cycle of intimacy, attraction and alienation.

Her fascination with the English language led her to re-examine how history has represented the Battle of Hastings, an event which had a profound impact on the development of modern English.Her work explores how experiences are translated into language and the ways in which actual or imagined events are fictionalised and mythologised.