Solo Exhibition - Return Of The Great White Hunter
29 May – 22 June 2024
OPENING EVENT Friday 31st May 5:30pm – To be opened by Dr Mary Knights [Senior Curator of Art, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery]
Despard Gallery is proud to present Return Of The Great White Hunter, solo exhibition by renowned Tasmanian printmaker Milan Milojevic.
With a highly celebrated career, Milojevic is recognised as a principal figure in the development and adoption of digital processes within contemporary printmaking. During his thirty-three year career as an academic, Milojevic was the head of the printmaking department at the University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts, as well as being Chief Investigator for the Digital Art Research Facility.
Milojevic continues to be a leader in the evolving discipline of digital printmaking, his work collaging together imaginary worlds that echo the traditions of 18th and 19th century European wood block designs along with symbols of native Tasmanian fauna and flora. Brought to life through archival inkjet prints, then overlayed with traditional printmaking techniques, Milojevic’s visual language is a unique combination of diagrammatic illustration, vibrant colour and poignant symbolism. Akin to early biology encyclopaedias or museological records, each work becomes a glossary of an alternate natural history, combining contemporary and historical references with his cross-cultural heritage.
Return Of The Great White Hunter presents a poignant new suite of works by Milojevic 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. Included in this new suite of works, are a set of prints that references the print folios of convict artist Joseph Lycett 1774-1878, published in book format in 1824/25, which were intended to be a history of the discovery, settlement and progress in the new colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Click here to read about the origins of The Great White Hunter.
Click here to request a catalogue of exhibition images for Milan Milojevic.
#1 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (Act I & Act II) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#2 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (Great White Hunter being Great) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#3 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (A day in the life of two Great White Hunters) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#4 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (The Great White Hunter after a hard day’s work I) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#5 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (The Great White Hunter exploring new frontiers) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#6 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The Great White Hunter after a hard day’s work II) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#7 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The Great White Hunter immortalised) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#8 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The Great White Hunter pissed as a fart) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#9 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (Trouble at the waterhole) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#10 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The demise of the Great White Hunter) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#11 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (Ballooning, a favourite pastime for the Great White Hunter) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#12 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The Great White Hunter going fishing) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#13 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia : Incognita (The Great White Hunter navigating troubled waters) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#14 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (The Great White Hunter shaping the landscape) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#15 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (Two Great White Hunters duck shooting) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#16 MILAN MILOJEVIC Arcadia Incognita (An evening with the Great White Hunter) 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 33 x 60 cm edition of 5 $2,250.00 [unframed] $2,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#19 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Heroes And Villains 2024 archival inkjet print with plate overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#23 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Insects And Flower 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#20 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Getting Nowhere 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#22 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Flowers And Two Birds 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#18 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Paradise Lost II 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#21 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Flowers, Insects And Bird 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#24 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of A Pretty Flamingo 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#17 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of Paradise Lost I 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#25 MILAN MILOJEVIC The Dome Of A Waterfall And Birds II 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 60 x 42 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#31 MILAN MILOJEVIC Marine Vivarium 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 42 x 60 cm edition of 5 $1,950.00 [unframed] $2,450.00 [framed with Artglass]
#30 MILAN MILOJEVIC Vivarium IV 2024 Archival inkjet with hand colour overlay 95 x 50 cm edition of 5 $3,100.00 [unframed] $3,750.00 [framed with Artglass]
#32 MILAN MILOJEVIC Vivarium V 2024 Archival inkjet with varnish overlay 42 x 35 cm, edition of 5 $1,200.00 [unframed] $1,600.00 [framed with Artglass]
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – #10 An Evening With The Great White Hunter #38 Elephant Dome #33 Trophy Room
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Back Wall – Arcadia : Incognita
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – #16 Race To The Top
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – #27 Haven #29 Mad Dogs And Englishmen….
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Parlour Domes Series
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – The Vivarium Wall
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Parlour Domes Series
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Hunter And Red Bird
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Arcadia : Incognita Great White Hunter Series
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Arcadia : Incognita Great White Hunter Series
Milan Milojevic – Gallery View – Arcadia : Incognita Great White Hunter Series[framed] – Possession
Click here to request virtual viewing room catalogue for Milan Milojevic