23rd - 30th April 2018

Fiona Banner transforms the nude study of a Paralympian's body into a ‘wordscape’ that verbally exploring the contours of the body and it’s tension in anticipation for competition. Describing the subtle movements of this body. The work represents the exceptional power of this body, through depicting the prosthetic additions of the athlete's body as immortal superhuman appendages. Superhuman Nude was commissioned as part of the 2012 London Olympics. 

Much of Fiona’s work explores the limitations and strengths of written language. Fiona creates ‘wordscapes’ of physical and visual scenarios into verbal descriptions. Fiona’s early work depicted feature films through her own words in the form of solid block text works the size of cinema screens. Her more recent work explores the nude in the context of the art historical or ‘classical’ nudes through transcribing in a similar vein to her earlier work.