Courtesy of the artist.
Join us for an informal artist’s talk in our Library with Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, joined in conversation by TCG’s outgoing Director, Katrina Brown, who curated Banner’s major 2002 exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Together they will discuss the developments in Banner’s work at the time of ‘Every Word Unmade’ and reflect on its resonance today. The artist’s talk will be followed by a preview of Studies / Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press – ‘Every Word Unmade’, TCG’s opening exhibition of 2026 and the first in a new, annual series, developed in conjunction with the Roberts Institute of Art.
About the artist /
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press explores gender, language, interpretation and publishing through a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, performance and moving image. The struggle between language and its limitations is central to Banner’s conceptual approach. With an interest in how conflict is mythologised through popular culture, her early work took the form of ‘wordscapes’ or ‘still films’, blow-by-blow accounts in her own words of feature films, from war movies to porn, from intimate scenes to historical events. These works evolved into solid single blocks of text, often the same shape and size as a cinema screen.
In 1997 Banner started her own publishing imprint The Vanity Press, with her monumental The Nam. She has since published many works, as books, sculptural objects or performances. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN number and registered herself as a publication under her own name.
Event Details
Saturday 21 March 2026, 3–4.30pm
Exhbition preview from 4.30. All welcome
Tickets
Free. Booking is recommended to ensure a place.
Access
This event takes place in the library and event space on the ground floor and the exhibition spaces on the second floor of 5 Florence Street.
The building has step free access and a lift to the second floor.
Accessible toilets are available.
The nearest subway station is Bridge Street, a 14 minute walk away.
