Fiona BannerUn*******believable

Signed and dated in black marker pen at lower right.

PROVENANCE

Thomas Frangenberg, London (acquired directly from the artist in the late 1990s).

Text from a (presumably) pornographic magazine, the words redacted with oil paint, leaving the punctuation marks as isolated, abstract gestures.

Banner has since created large scale sculptures of punctuation marks in painted bronze which she considered individual pieces of sculpture. As regards her text work she describes it as: 'There's always this attempt to keep up with words, I find, and it's impossible. You can't describe things as they're happening, not without losing a lot. From that point on I started thinking about punctuation in a spatial, more concrete way. The idea of punctuation as 'form' that might actually represent itself.' (from Making it Real, a conversation with Matthew Higgs, 1997).