New Zealand army Corporal Robert Turner, mechanic at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort workshops, ...

New Zealand army Corporal Robert Turner, mechanic at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort workshops, reveals his tattoo to eX de Medici. The skill, technique and patience required for tattooing has fed into eX de Medici's work as watercolour artist.The Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with troops from New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga formed the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). The RAMSI peacekeeping mission has been present in the Solomon Islands since 2003. eX de Medici was sent to the Solomon Islands in March 2009 as an Australian War Memorial official artists during one of the wettest weeks of the year. Continual downpour restricted her ability to paint or sketch on site. De Medici relied on journal records and hundreds of photographs of her observations and experiences to produce her artwork. Stitching together elements from numerous photographs, de Medici created a series of artworks that does not reflect a particular location, instead merges historical and contemporary motifs revealing the uncertain future of the Solomon Islands.