Funding is available for national collecting institutions to help them develop and tour their collections nationally and internationally. Funding recipients for 2021–22 are listed below.
Australian National Maritime Museum
Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
This is an exhibition of sculptural and printed artworks by Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands) artist Alick Tipoti. Guided by the traditional cultural practices of his people, Tipoti's storytelling encompasses traditional cosmology, marine environments and ocean conservation – focusing on what it means to be a sea person. The exhibition will showcase his award-winning sculptural works, ancestral masks and various films.
Funding will support the development of the exhibition for touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $137,249
Bundanon Trust
Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul
'Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul concentrates on a little known part of the life of one of Australia's most famous artists and the work inspired by the landscape of the Shoalhaven River surrounding Bundanon. The works in this exhibition convey the artist's relationship with the landscape and are said to be signature works of his career. '
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to New South Wales.
Touring funding: $24,320
Museum of Australian Democracy
Behind the Lines 2021
This annual exhibition showcases the best Australian political cartoons from the year, celebrating Australian's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. Engaging, witty and always humorous, these images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life.
Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales
Development and touring funding: $72,000
Behind the Lines 2020
This annual exhibition showcases the best Australian political cartoons from the year, celebrating Australian's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. Engaging, witty and always humorous, these images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Victoria and New South Wales.
Touring funding: $18,500
National Archives of Australia
Motel: Images of Australia on Holiday with Tim Ross
This exhibition is being developed through a partnership between the National Archives of Australia and Australian design enthusiast Tim Ross. The inspiration for the exhibition is drawn from Tim Ross' book Motel: Images of Australia on holiday, published in 2019 under a partnership between the National Archives and Ross. The photos will be accompanied by humorous captions and reflective essays by Mr Ross.
Funding will support the development of the exhibition for touring.
Development funding: $50,000
National Film and Sound Archive
The Dressmaker
This exhibition will feature costumes that appeared in the 2015 film 'The Dressmaker' starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. In particular, the exhibition will celebrate the work of leading Australian female creatives such as Jocelyn Moorhouse (director), Sue Maslin AO (producer) and award-winning costume designer Marion Boyce.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Touring funding: $94,207.50
Interactive Trivia Game
This is an interactive trivia game being developed in a web format through an app offering a sequence of trivia questions created from the National Film and Sound Archive's collection centred around Australia's history, culture and audio-visual heritage.
Funding will support the development of the exhibition with venues finalised once the development of the web platform is complete.
Touring funding: $58,432.50
National Gallery of Australia
Body Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony
This is the National Gallery of Australia's fourth Indigenous art triennial. Curated by Hetti Perkins, this exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists working across a variety of mediums and providing a voice on important topics such as reconciliation, sovereignty, identity, culture and history.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Queensland
Touring funding: $95,500
Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Terminus is a Virtual Reality based exhibition which presents a choose-your-own adventure into the technological. Visitors navigate through a slippage of time and space as their journey propels them through five distinct realms at separate stations positioned within a floor map of technicolour pathways and symbols.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.
Touring funding: $41,585
Judy Watson and Helen Johnson
Developed as part of the Balnaves Contemporary Series of new works, this exhibition sees Indigenous woman Judy Watson and non-Indigenous woman Helen Watson collaborate to develop works exploring experiences of Australian women within colonisation.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to New South Wales,
Touring funding: $29,500
National Library of Australia
George French Angas
This exhibition celebrates the work of George French Angas, a colonial artist and naturalist who made hundreds of watercolour drawings of the colonial frontiers of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa between 1844 and 1847.
Funding will support the presentation of the exhibition to one venue in South Australia.
Touring funding: $30,500
National Museum of Australia
Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years!
This exhibition celebrates Play School as the longest running children's series on Australian television. Appealing to several generations of Australians the exhibition will allow visitors to connect with the sets and props from this beloved show which holds a special place in Australia's cultural memory.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Western Australia.
Touring funding: $61,688
Red Centre: Art from Australia
Red is a significant colour in Chinese culture, symbolising luck, joy and happiness and the Red Centre exhibition features 8 paintings from the NMA collection by Indigenous Australian artists who use the colour red to express their relationships to Country, to family, to ritual, to knowledge and to their spirituality. This exhibition is touring to the National Art Museum of China.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition internationally to China.
Touring funding: $58,560
Touring Showcase
The NMA will design and fabricate a custom-made museum grade showcase purpose built for domestic touring. The showcase, with accompanying digital object labels and a multi-tiered engagement package, which will tour to a pilot venue, taking significant collection material to venues who may not ordinarily be able to host a traditional travelling exhibition.
Funding will support the development of the showcase for touring to a pilot venue.
Touring funding: $108,268
National Portrait Gallery of Australia
Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize 2021
This annual exhibition promotes the best contemporary photographic portraiture by professional and aspiring Australian photographers. The National Photographic Portrait Prize attracts large visitor numbers and has traditionally toured to a large number of regional areas.
Funding will support the touring of the 2021 exhibition to venues in Tasmania and Queensland.
Touring funding: $61,670
Pub Rock
The pub rock phenomenon that spread across Australia in the 70s and 80s resulted in an evolution of music and culture that had a lasting impact on the nation's identity. This exhibition of home-grown rock 'n' roll, punk and pop features photographic prints made from the NPG collection alongside images by leading Australian music photographers. The Pub Rock exhibition celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation's identity.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Queensland.
Touring funding: $58,020