e de Medici

eX de Medici is an artist whose practice incorporates performance, installation art, tattooing, photography, painting and drawing. de Medici is probably best known for her intricate, largescale watercolours that reference a contemporary slant on the vanitas still life tradition.

In her work, she combines tattooing and fine art techniques and often incorporates recurring motifs such as skulls, guns, insects and swastikas. Gun(n)s ‘n Styx is an example of de Medici’s intricately-layered style and features a visually overbearing array of military-grade weapons and insects in a bed of red and green foliage.

Image: eX de Medici

Gun(n)s ‘n Styx 2005

Watercolour on Paper, 114cm x 178.6 cm

Collection of the artist © eX de Medici