Fiona Banner has produced a series of site-specific giant full stops sculptures in bronze for the More London site near Tower Bridge.

"Each sculpture represents a full stop from a different font, such as Courier, Nuptial, Blippo, Zapf, Chancery and Century. They each have the same point (pt) size but the expanded scale reveals the anomalies latent within an apparently universal and uniform symbol.

In the context of the More London development, the sculptures create an abstract encounter with language. The Full Stops function as abstract sculptures with or without their reference to language and punctuation. For More London, the forms selected are chosen to mirror the surrounding architecture of the development, the new GLA building and Tower Bridge. The sculptures cause one to pause, stop, carry on.

The sculptures literally articulate the space - scattered as if fallen from a big conversation, the five Full Stops punctuate the long causeway. People walk amongst them like letters, in an abstract narrative."

Fiona Banner

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