Author: Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press explores gender, language, and conflict through a range of mediums. She deploys a playful performative attitude to publishing - often publishing sculptural objects or performances. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN number and registered herself as a publication under her own name, a sort of self-portrait as a book. Intermittently, when language fails, she makes work based on fullstops.
Fiona Banner
Full Stop
Issue 2 Posted by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press

The cover art for this issue was taken from Fiona Banner’s 2020 project, Full Stop, an intervention developed in collaboration with the environmental campaign group Greenpeace. The pandemic has made us more alert to the precariousness of nature, at a time when words like ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ have been repeated to the point of diluting their urgency, this work is a message…

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