EX De Medici


eX De Medici is an Australian visual artist, born at Coolamon, in the Riverina district in south western New South Wales. She attended the Canberra School of Art, combining performance, installation and photography in her fine art degree.

Career

Her work is represented in Australian public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Museum and Gallery and State Galleries.
She lived for 18 months in Norfolk Island working on a large watercolour painting containing detailed of flowers, fruit, porcelain and skulls which referenced her own family history. This work, entitled Blue 1998-2000, was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in 2004 and will feature in the NGA's Know My Name exhibition in Canberra over 2020/21.
An untitled photocopy piece appeared at the Bitumen River Gallery exhibition "The Printed Image".
Active in the Canberra Arts Community, eX de Medici participated in a working group supporting the establishment of a Contemporary Art Space in Canberra, which held a public meeting at Gorman House in Braddon in 1986. The invitation to the opening of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space notes "an exhibition of site specific works" including her work.
She was among artists appearing in the Australia & Regions Artists' eXchange, Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia in September 1987. The ARX87 June Newsletter described her "producing a work in two parts, one for Canberra and one for Perth, utilizing photocopiers and generating images in response to the Perth locality, placed in public spaces with regular changes."
Her "Scenes from an Ivory Tower" was exhibited in 1987 at "Utopia Nowhere", Gallery 111, Canberra. The work also appeared at The Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and The Australian Centre for Photography. The Australian Centre for Photography Exhibition Programme described the work as "A large scale work in composite laser photocopy...a long-term working title for a view from the Political Capital. The work addresses...the 'Violent Act', particularly those perpetrated by women on women, and the cultural positioning of the 'victor' and victim'."
Text works eX de Medici were performed at Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan in December 1988.
A colour screenprint titled Alexis says desire drules, Ok was included in "Posters - the politics of life" at aGOG in Canberra in April 1989.
She was the subject of a major donation to the Australian War Memorial in 2017, made by Erika Krebs-Woodward through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.