Naked Witch: An Autobiography

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Lizzie Carey-Thomas and Dave Hickey , Harrier and Jaguar, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2010. Collecting is a recurrent theme in Banner’s work, and she has compiled this collection over a period of twenty years. These pieces took the form of solid single blocks of text, often the same shape and size as a cinema screen. For example, Top Gun 1994 (Tate T13203) is a billboard-sized unedited written account of the action in the movie of the same name starring Tom Cruise, while Break Point 1998 (Tate T07501) is based on the chase scene in Kathryn Bigelow’s cult film Point Break (1991).

Fiona Banner’s practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and publishing. Enjoy the hottest mature women who still love masturbating and showing off their hot bodies in these naughty scenes from OlderWomanFun.

Banner is best known for her ‘wordscapes’, highly subjective written accounts that often retell entire Hollywood feature films or sequences of events. As a collection it embodies the history of manned flight and the development of an unwieldy military industry.

For Banner, bells signify the simplest form of communication – an instrument that requires no music; a language without words, yet with multiple and conflicting meanings. It’s a way of describing ourselves – an attempt to stall time long enough to make some kind of reflection, not of the stuff around, but of us, the flesh. This developed out of works she made using pornographic films, such as Arsewoman in Wonderland 2002, and the desire to investigate what the body can communicate outside of any narrative context. A copy of this book will be lodged with the Legal Deposit providing reference and representation of the overall body of work.Banner is fascinated with how within the life class there is often ‘a frisson of subdued sexuality – an excitement about how to formalise an act that would normally be very intimate and very erotic: looking for a long time, very intensely, at a naked person. Since then, working with models and co-performers Marianne Hyatt, Ame Henderson and Samantha Morton, she has made a combination of works in the privacy of the studio and with observers.