eX de MEDICI
Selected Biograhy
eX de Medici was born in 1959 in the Riverina district of New South Wales. She lives and works in Canberra.
Her broad practice incorporates performance and installation art, tattooing, photography, painting and drawing. De Medici's fastidiously executed drawings and watercolours reflect an interest in natural-history watercolour illustration and relate to her practice as a tattooist. Concerned with power and its representation, de Medici brings a contemporary perspective to the vanitas tradition. Recurring motifs in her thought-provoking works include skulls, guns and the historically loaded symbol of the swastika.
eX de Medici has exhibited extensively in Australia and her work is represented in major collections. Recent solo exhibitions include eX de Medici@MPRG, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2004; and Soft Steel, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2003.
Her work is held in many major public collections that include: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Mornington Peninsula Museum and Gallery, Victoria; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Monash University Gallery, Victoria; Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Tooth and claw, 2009
pen, ink and mica on paper
114.0 x 521.0 cm
Exhibitions
Melbourne Art Fair | 2010
eX de Medici | sweet complicity