eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness

11 Foreword Chris Saines 15 'Something wicked this way comes' Samantha Littley 37 Punk your graphics Jenny McFarlane 49 Blood pacts in a time of darkness: eX de Medici and tattooing in the age of AIDS Ted Gott 63 The radical ecologies of eX de Medici Andrea Bubenik 75 On symbiosis Marianne Horak and eX de Medici 85 Plates 204 Catalogue of works 210 Exhibition history 220 Selected bibliography 224 Acknowledgments 227 Contributors Acknowledgment of Country The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Gallery stands in Brisbane. We pay respect to Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islander peoples, and Elders past and present. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the immense creative contribution First Australians, as the first visual artists and storytellers, make to the art and culture of this country. Contents Gary Grealy / Australia b.1950 / eX de Medici and her Wall of Shame (2) 2018 Pages 8–9: Skinny Day Ambush (Super Family) (detail) 2007