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Details
- Date
- 2016
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour, gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 100.0 x 115.0 cm sheet; 112.5 x 128.3 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Paul & Valeria Ainsworth Charitable Foundation, Kathleen Buchan an May Bequest Fund and the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Benefactors' Fund 2017
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 177.2017
- Copyright
- © eX de Medici
- Artist information
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About
Concerned with power and its representation, ex de Medici brings a contemporary perspective to the vanitas tradition – that is, still life as an allegory for the brevity and transience of life. Her finely executed watercolours incorporate close observation of the natural world with military objects such as machine guns, helmets and surveillance technology. 'Root and branch' 2016 depicts a luger pistol sprouting with native lichens, the delicate beauty of the organic growth counterpointed against the unyielding metal of the gun. The composition takes its cue from natural history drawing, with the addition of a secondary, sprouting twig on the blank sheet to the right of the weapon, and the fastidious miniaturist painting style.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Spies like us: Ex de Medici, Sullivan+Strumpf, Zetland, Zetland, 10 Jun 2017–08 Jul 2017
