Fiona Banner

Banner often works under the moniker The Vanity Press, the imprint she established in 1997, with her seminal book The Nam. Since then she has published many works, some in the form of books, some sculptural, some performance based. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN number and registered herself as a publication under her own name. Humour, conflict and language are at the core of her work. Banner has produced a number of experimental one-off publications as part of a series about the way ideas are represented and circulated. These unique prints and sculptures are editions in and only of themselves; editions of one – a book reduced to a reference, a purely imagined space. This helicopter blade has an ISBN number and is officially registered as a publication under the title Spine.