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AS/NZ Workshop
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Maker: eX de Medici
Guadalcanal Beach Resort (GBR) is the main base for the military and police forces of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). It was an American base during the Second World Wa...ART94158
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Bullpup
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Maker: eX de Medici
This F88 Steyr is part of a continuing series of works where de Medici distinguishes rifles as a 'species'. A weapon is overlaid with the microscopic structure of a moth. The scope of this Steyr featu...ART94228
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Cpl Bob Revermann and Solomon Islanders
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Maker: eX de Medici
Corporal Bob Revermann, Head Chief Mechanic is giving a ration pack as an exchange to two Solomon Islander men. The location is Honiara Harbour, where wreckage and rubbish are strewn along the coastl...ART94152
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Downstream/Gold Ridge gold mine
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Maker: eX de Medici
This is a portrait of an Australian peacekeeper while on a community liaison visit to a Solomon Islands village. The artist accompanied the ADF on this patrol. This was a well-kept village next to a ...ART94143
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F88C Steyr (Bullpup) + Cordited (MS.WWII) Handgrenades (Pineapples) Solomon Islands/Guadalcanal, Gifu + Hell's Point
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Maker: eX de Medici
An F88 Steyr, the rifle used by the ADF, lies on a bed of grenades that have had the cordite removed. The grenades represent Hell's Point, the site of the battle of Tenaru in 1942 and now the decommis...ART94157
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GBR
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Maker: eX de Medici
Guadalcanal Beach Resort (GBR) is the main base for the military and police forces of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). It was an American base during the Second World Wa...ART94155
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Honiara: Rove Patrol
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Maker: eX de Medici
The artist visited Rove Prison several times and on one trip there had been a rotation with new Australian peacekeepers on patrol. De Medici observed, "Their replacements were most charming & polite ...ART94159
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Lt Josh Caddy
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Maker: eX de Medici
Portrait of Lieutenant Josh Caddy. He served on Rotation 17 with the Australian Defence Force as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands.ART94141
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Malaita Patrol leaving Henderson Airport
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Maker: eX de Medici
Malaita is an island north of Guadalcanal. The Australian army conduct regular patrols to Malaita. Pictured here is a patrol leaving Henderson Airport in a helicopter. The soldier in the foreground ...ART94154
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Malaria Central
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Maker: eX de Medici
This is a composite group portrait of a patrol at Tetere, a Forward Operating Base east of Honiara. On one level the work is an exploration of youth and masculinity that also offers an endorsement of ...ART94227
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Maritime Facility
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Maker: eX de Medici
This is a composite image, where de Medici has incorporated several photographs to form an overall impression of Maritime. Maritime was a Forward Operating Base near Honiara. In the background is an ...ART94146
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NZ Camp Guadalcanal Beach Resort
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Maker: eX de Medici
Pencil sketch of the temporary camp for the New Zealanders at Guadalcanal Beach Resort. Guadalcanal Beach Resort (GBR) is the main base for the military and police forces of the Regional Assistance M...ART94161
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Pacific Styx (Dev. Robert Hunt Library/US 1st Division Dec 1943)
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Maker: eX de Medici
This work relates to the Second World War and emerged within the Solomon Islands series from research eX de Medici undertook while completing the commission. Soldiers from the United States First Div...ART94144
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Peanut's gym, Rove camp
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Maker: eX de Medici
Patrols of nine personnel operate on a rotational basis to Rove Prison. Their job is to guard the prison complex, which includes conducting random perimeter patrols. There are often quiet times, wit...ART94153
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Plantation Patrol (Tetere)
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Maker: eX de Medici
Four peacekeepers from the Australian Army on patrol at a Palm Oil Plantation in the Tetere area of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.ART94150
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Quartermaster Major Sunshine Collins, S.I. Police Commander Nelson Nausi, Hell's Point Explosives Demolition Facility
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Maker: eX de Medici
The Solomon Islands, particularly the main island of Guadalcanal, was the site of major fighting between Japan and the United States of America from early August 1942 to early February 1943. Years aft...ART94151
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recto: Chapel GBR; verso: Mechanical/engineering Jules Fisk
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Maker: eX de Medici
recto: Guadalcanal Beach Resort (GBR) is the main base for the military and police forces of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). It was an American base during the Second W...ART94160
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Rove crew -2
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Maker: eX de Medici
Patrols of nine personnel operate on a rotational basis to Rove Prison. Their job is to guard the prison complex, which includes conducting random perimeter patrols. This is a portrait of seven memb...ART94171
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Rove Prison Patrol
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Maker: eX de Medici
Patrols of nine personnel operate on a rotational basis to Rove Prison. Their job is to guard the prison complex, which includes conducting random perimeter patrols.ART94147
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Royal Tongan Marine, Pte Pateta
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Maker: eX de Medici
This is a portrait of Royal Tongan Marine Private Pateta smoking a cigarette. The Royal Tongan Marines form part of the Combined Task Force (CTF). The CTF also includes Australian, New Zealand and Pa...ART94142