FIONA BANNER (b. 1966)

'I’m interested in what pictures can do. They can convey all this intense action at once, so that’s kind of turning the heroism round and using it in my own way. I’ve always been interested in the limitation and the power of description. Descriptions of how things look or appear, or disappear for that matter. What I’m doing in words could start with painting a still life; but the subject of a still life is still and a move is in motion – very fast in the case of car-chases. I suppose it is about pushing this difference between still and moving, not just moving, but zooming; the car chases were a bit of a caricature of this.' F. Banner