Announcement – Despard Gallery, 23 May 2024
Milan Milojevic – ‘Return Of The Great White Hunter’
Despard Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming solo exhibition, Return Of The Great White Hunter by contemporary Tasmanian artist, educator and 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.
Combining contemporary and historical references with his cross-cultural heritage, Milojevic’s practice collages together imaginary worlds that echo the traditions of European wood block designs along with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 overlaid with traditional printmaking techniques, Milojevic’s work becomes a glossary of an alternate natural history, combining
In his first solo exhibition with Despard Gallery, Milojevic that critiques the Age of Discovery and the conquest of exotic new worlds during the 18th and 19th centuries. 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. With varying degrees of satire, Return Of The Great White Hunter invites us to consider the multiple origins of these ever-evolving realms and further question the complex narratives that underpin them.
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.
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