Despard Gallery is proud to host Return Of The Great White Hunter, solo exhibition by established Tasmanian printmaker Milan Milojevic.
29 May – 22 June 2024
With a highly celebrated career, Milojevic is recognised as a leading figure in the development and adoption of digital processes within contemporary printmaking. Combining contemporary and historical references with his cross-cultural heritage, Milojevic’s practice collages together imaginary worlds that echo the traditions of European wood block designs along with doctored symbols of native Tasmanian fauna and flora. Brought to life through archival inkjet prints overlayed with traditional printmaking techniques, Milojevic’s work becomes a glossary of an alternate natural history, combining diagrammatic illustration with vibrant colour and poignant symbolism.
In his first solo exhibition with Despard Gallery, MIlojevic presents a new suite of works that critiques the Age of Discovery and the conquest of exotic new worlds during the 18th and 19th Century. This includes engravings and wood cuts that recorded the exploration of Terra Australis Incognita and the destructive cycle of discovery, colonisation and possession.
Milan Milojevic is a contemporary artist and printmaker based in nipaluna /Hobart, lutruwita /Tasmania. Milojevic has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including solo shows in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, as well as Dundee and Aberdeen in Scotland. Recent major exhibitions include a solo commission for the Devonport Reginal Gallery in 2020, as well as participating in group shows at the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Launceston and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. His work is held in major public and private collections in Australia and Europe including Artbank, the National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Queensland, State Library of NSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Montrose Academy and the Aberdeen Infirmary, Scotland, and the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Poland.