eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness

229 228 EX DE MEDICI: BEAUTIFUL WICKEDNESS PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at GOMA, Brisbane, Australia, 24 June – 2 October 2023. © Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2023 This work is copyright and all rights are reserved. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced or communicated to the public in any form or by any process without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Requests and inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by the authors and QAGOMA. All artworks in this publication are copyright the artist or their estate, unless otherwise noted. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. All reasonable efforts have been made to obtain permissions from the holders of copyright and reproduction rights of all images and credit them accurately in this publication. In cases where this has not been possible, owners are invited to notify the publisher. A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia. NOTES ON THE PUBLICATION Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parentheses. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the digital files of the original works. Typeset in Mokgech and Ideal Sans. Image colour adjustment by Colour Chiefs, Brisbane. Printed on FSC Mix certified paper, Hannoart Plus from Ball & Doggett, using vegetable-based inks by Cornerstone Press, Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 9781876509057 DISTRIBUTION Thames & Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd 11 Central Boulevard Portside Business Park Port Melbourne Victoria 3207 T: +61 3 9646 7788 E: enquiries@thaust.com.au W: thamesandhudsonaustralia.com Cover eX de Medici Australia b.1959 I Killed Her with My Club (detail) 2017 Page 1: Live the (Big Black) Dream (detail) 2006 Page 3: I Can’t Breathe 2021 Pages 4–5: Spies Like Us (detail) 2016 Opposite: The artist ’ s studio, Canberra, 2023 Over: eX de Medici at Beaver Galleries, Canberra, 2021 TOURISM & MEDIA PARTNERS MAJOR PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNER PUBLICATION SPONSOR