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The current 2010 Duveen Commission, by Fiona Banner.
The suspended Sea Harrier transforms machine into captive bird, the markings tattooing its surface evoking its namesake the Harrier Hawk. A Jaguar lies belly up on the floor, its posture suggestive of a submissive animal. Stripped and polished, its surface functions as a shifting mirror, exposing the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar remain ambiguous objects implying both captured beast and fallen trophy.
[From the Tate website]
Both planes are de-commissioned fighter planes.
The Jaguar has been polished, the Harrier painted with feathers.
Sea Harrier.
This particular plane is BAe Sea Harrier ZE695.
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS1. The Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service in 2006 and the last remaining aircraft from 801 Naval Air Squadron were decommissioned on 29 March 2006.
Harrier and Jaguar by Fiona Banner, at Tate Britain. (Re-uploaded after re-processing in Lightroom 4, giving better results)
The current 2010 Duveen Commission, by Fiona Banner.
The suspended Sea Harrier transforms machine into captive bird, the markings tattooing its surface evoking its namesake the Harrier Hawk. A Jaguar lies belly up on the floor, its posture suggestive of a submissive animal. Stripped and polished, its surface functions as a shifting mirror, exposing the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar remain ambiguous objects implying both captured beast and fallen trophy.
[From the Tate website]
Both planes are de-commissioned fighter planes.
The Jaguar has been polished, the Harrier painted with feathers.
Sea Harrier.
This particular plane is BAe Sea Harrier ZE695.
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS1. The Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service in 2006 and the last remaining aircraft from 801 Naval Air Squadron were decommissioned on 29 March 2006.
The current 2010 Duveen Commission, by Fiona Banner.
The suspended Sea Harrier transforms machine into captive bird, the markings tattooing its surface evoking its namesake the Harrier Hawk. A Jaguar lies belly up on the floor, its posture suggestive of a submissive animal. Stripped and polished, its surface functions as a shifting mirror, exposing the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar remain ambiguous objects implying both captured beast and fallen trophy.
[From the Tate website]
Both planes are de-commissioned fighter planes.
The Jaguar has been polished, the Harrier painted with feathers.
Sea Harrier.
This particular plane is BAe Sea Harrier ZE695.
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS1. The Sea Harrier was withdrawn from service in 2006 and the last remaining aircraft from 801 Naval Air Squadron were decommissioned on 29 March 2006.
With a sculpture by Fiona Banner in the foreground. Taken from beside 2 More London Riverside.
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Tower Bridge (built 1886-1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames.
It consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.
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from the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner.
Agfa Isolette, expired (badly stored) Kodak Tri-X, Rodinal 1+50
More pics about Chester Contemporary
Info from Chester Contemporary site:
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press
DISARM, 2023
An enigmatic, multi-layered installation
Set in a once busy fashion store, DISARM is infused with a contradictory sense of desire, conflict and lost aspiration, wittily referencing the ‘runway’ as a site for aircraft as well as a theatrical fashion space. Drawing on the military history written into Chester’s fabric, it suggests conflict is neither distant nor past.
Upended helicopter blades stand in as mannequins which exhibit Banner’s collection of military aircraft-inspired costumes, while old Topshop dummies are taken apart and repurposed as props. A short film shows an arm emblazoned with DISARM hurled into the blue sky. Across the shop floor, the grandiose, seductive soundtrack of Pranayama Organ plays out. In this film, inflatable military decoy aircraft enact a strange unrequited desire for intimacy not conflict; figures, at once birdlike, human and automaton, dance around each other in an absurd ritual of courtship and combat.
Falcon, an authentic decoy fighter plane is pressed into the shop window, inflating and deflating – an absurd breathing creature, as much animal as state-of-the-art fighter.
The now defunct Topshop brand is redolent of an age of consumer innocence; the once brightly mirrored space is transformed into a darkened theatre for a very different type of yearning.
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press (b. 1966, Merseyside, UK) explores gender, language and conflict through a range of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, performance, and the moving image. Language and publishing are at the heart of her practice and Banner’s attitude is at once playful and often performative. Her work centres on the problems and possibilities of language, both written and metaphorical. 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, a sort of self-portrait as a book.
Sat 23 Sept - Fri 1 Dec, 2023
Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Chester (The former Topshop unit), Grosvenor Shopping Centre, Eastgate St, Chester, CH1 1LE
FREE - no need to book
Open Weds-Sun, 11am - 4pm
Access The unit is accessible from the entrance to the Grosvenor Shopping Centre at pavement level on Eastgate Street. The exhibition is step-free. More access details here.
More information see:
chestercontemporary.org/FionaBanner
#ChesterCulture
from the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner.
Agfa Isolette, expired (badly stored) Kodak Tri-X, Rodinal 1+50
If you ever need a lesson in the problems with badly stored film this has to be it. The grain on this Tri-X is the size of sugar cubes.
View across Queen's Walk - including part of the Open Shutters Iraq photography exhibition - through Tower Bridge to St Katharine Docks and Canary Wharf.
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Fiona Banner's Sepecat Jaguar at Tate Britain. She's made the surface super-shiny, and it's beautiful.
from the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner
Olympus OM1, 35mm f2.8, Neopan 1600, Rodinal 1+50
Taken from More London.
It had just started raining, was very hot and humid, and then a whopping thunderstorm started.
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Tower Bridge (built 1886-1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames.
It consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.
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Harrier and Jaguar, by Fiona Banner.
n the South Duveens, a Sea Harrier jet is suspended vertically, its bulk spanning floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Mimicking its namesake the harrier hawk, the aircraft's surface has been reworked with handpainted graphic feather markings - the cockpit, the eyes, the nose cone, the beak - and hung nose pointing towards the floor, bringing to mind a trussed bird.
In the North Duveens, a Sepecat Jaguar lies belly-up on the floor, its elegant, elongated body traces the length the gallery. Stripped of paint and polished to reveal a metallic surface, the aircraft becomes a mirror that reflects back its surroundings and exposes the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar achieves a powerful presence loaded with the seductive and yet troubling qualities of these objects of war.
Fiona Banner's Sea Harrier at Tate Britain. Beautiful, and rather vulnerable-looking too. It's suspended by two thin wires from the ceiling, so there's a small amount of space between it and the floor. It works brilliantly here - the smooth industrial, military, 20th century lines of the fighter jet contrast hugely with the classical architecture.
In the scrap metal dealer next to my office. Aided by some detective work by Facebook and Twitter friends, I think these are the remains of Fiona Banner's recent exhibits at Tate Britain.
The Jaguar is here: azurebumble.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/fiona-banner-harrier...
The Harrier is here:
Harrier and Jaguar. Fiona Banner. Tate Britain.
I'll be honest, I don't often 'get' modern art, but when I read about these a few months ago, I had to get along to see them.
Quite simply put, I found them amazing. Seeing two bloody great jet fighters inside such a classical hall is a real eye opener.
Both of them have been slightly altered - the Harrier has had some feathers painted on, whereas the Jaguar has been stripped back and mirror finished (which made it a bugger to photograph).
If you get a chance to go see these, I would certainly recommend it - well worth the visit.