Funding is available for national collecting institutions to help them develop and tour their collections nationally and internationally. Funding recipients for 2022–23 are listed below.
Museum of Australian Democracy
Behind the Lines 2022
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 and South Australia.
Development and touring funding: $75,000
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 touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales.
Touring funding: $28,000
National Archives of Australia
Reception this way: Motels – a Sentimental Journey with Tim Ross (formerly Motels: Images of Australia on Holidays with Tim Ross)
Reception this way is based on the book MOTEL: Images of Australia on holiday by Tim Ross, which was developed in partnership with the National Archives of Australia as an accompaniment to his 2019 touring live show. The content of this book has been expanded to create an engaging photographic exhibition of national interest and relevance.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Tasmania and Queensland.
Touring funding: $96,910
Making Change: How Do You Change Society?
This exhibition seeks to answer the question of ‘How do you change the world?’ through records held in the collection of the National Archives of Australia. It will explore the ways Australians have changed the world, and how the Commonwealth has responded.
Funding will support the development of this exhibition for future touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $80,170
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 2021 exhibition focuses on the unique challenges Australians faced during 2020, including devastating natural disasters, and the isolation and occasional small pleasures of COVID‑19 lockdowns.
Funding will support the touring of the 2021 exhibition to venues in Western Australia and South Australia.
Touring funding: $41,245
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022
This annual exhibition promotes the best contemporary photographic portraiture by professional and aspiring Australian photographers.
Funding will support the touring of the 2022 exhibition to venues in Tasmania and South Australia.
Touring funding: $46,956
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 National Portrait Gallery’s collection alongside images by leading Australian music photographers.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales.
Touring funding: $60,569
WHO ARE YOU
This exhibition brings together the rich portrait holdings of the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery and explores the psychology of sitters and artists, along with issues of sociability and isolation, celebrity and ordinariness.
Funding will support marketing and freight costs associated with the display of this exhibition in Victoria.
Touring funding: $17,840
National Museum of Australia
Red Heart Australia
This exhibition Australia features eight paintings from the National Museum of Australia 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.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Western Australia.
Touring funding: $106,330
National Gallery of Australia
Single Channel: Video Art & the Moving Image
This exhibition brings together key video works from 1970s to the present day. The selection traces the emergence of video, its connection to portraiture, focusing on works by First Nations and Australian artists.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales, South Australian and Western Australia.
Touring funding: $216,926.50
Know My Name
Know My Name is a gender equity initiative and exhibition celebrating the significant contributions Australian women artists have made to Australian art and culture. The tour exhibition will feature the work of between 60-70 of the key artists from the original exhibition.
Funding will support the development of the exhibition for future touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $121,705
Judy Watson and Helen Johnson: The Loose Red Threads of History
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, Victoria and Queensland.
Touring funding: $63,863.50
Ever Present: First People’s Art of Australia
This exhibition showcases First Nations art from the late 1800s through to today, exploring diversity of practice from across the country. It comprises over 160 key works of art by many of Australia’s greatest Indigenous artists drawn from the extensive collections of the National Gallery of Australia and Wesfarmers Arts.
Funding will support the touring of this exhibition at the National Gallery of Singapore.
Touring funding: $44,485