Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Merseyside, England |
| Education | Kingston University and Goldsmiths College |
| Movement | Young British Artists |
| Spouse | Nick Rosen |
| Website | http://www.fionabanner.com/ |
Fiona Banner (born 1966), also known as The Vanity Press, is a British artist. Her 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. She is well known for her early works in the form of 'wordscapes', written transcriptions of the frame-by-frame action in Hollywood war films, including Top Gun and Apocalypse Now. Her work has been exhibited in prominent international venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Hayward Gallery, London.[1][better source needed] Banner was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002.