Funding is available for national collecting institutions to help them develop and tour their collections nationally and internationally. Funding recipients for 2023–24 are listed below.
Australian National Maritime Museum
Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
An exhibition of sculptural and printed works by Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands) artist Alick Tipoti. Guided by the traditional cultural practices of his people, Mariw Minaral brings together some of the finest examples of Tipoti’s unique and intricate linocut prints. The exhibition also showcases his award-winning sculptural works, ancestral masks and various films.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales Tasmania and Queensland.
Touring funding: $87,484
Bundanon Trust
Fantastic forms
Fantastic Forms features over 200 works from the Bundanon Collection in dialogue with new large-scale sculptures by Nabilah Nordin, a series of ceramic figures by Stephen Benwell and stop motion videos by emerging Bundjalung artist Rubyrose Bancroft.
Funding will support the development of this exhibition for touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $80,000
Museum of Australian Democracy
Behind the Lines 2023
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 and Victoria.
Touring funding: $122,800
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 touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Victoria.
Touring funding: $37,200
National Archives of Australia
Reception this way: Motels – a Sentimental Journey 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 New South Wales and Queensland.
Touring funding: $25,211
Focus: Australian Government photographers
This exhibition draws on the extensive photographic collections of the National Archives of Australia to explore the skill and artistic merit of images created for Australian government departments.
Funding will support the development of this exhibition for touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $101,077
National Portrait Gallery of Australia
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
This annual exhibition promotes the best contemporary photographic portraiture by professional and aspiring Australian photographers.
Funding will support the touring of the 2023 exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Queensland.
Touring funding: $42,389
DANCER
This exhibition explores an experience of the world through dance. It comprises 50 exhibition prints and two audio visual works. Some of the themes addressed in the exhibition include the accessibility of dance to all, the authentic joy to be experienced through dance, and how art, life, body, and nature all connect in dance.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Queensland.
Touring funding: $42,273
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. The Pub Rock exhibition celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Queensland.
Touring funding: $24,117
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 2023 exhibition to venues in Tasmania and Victoria.
Touring funding: $54,575
National Museum of Australia
Belonging: Stories from Far North Queensland
Drawing on generations of knowledge and bound by a profound relationship with country, this exhibition of Indigenous art from across the region of far north Queensland explores what it means to ‘belong’. Featuring two and three-dimensional works that are as diverse as the communities and culture that created them, ‘Belonging’ represents a rare opportunity for audiences around Australia to share in the stories captured by one of the Museum’s most important First Nations acquisitions of the last decade.
Funding will support the development of this exhibition for touring to regional and remote venues.
Development funding: $161,140
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. Designs and symbols are a form of ancestral script that tell the story of Aboriginal peoples’ powerful imprint on the land, as part of the land, not separate from it.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Western Australia.
Touring funding: $30,000
Touring Showcase
Convict tokens from the National Museum of Australia’s collection is the inaugural exhibition developed for the touring showcase, a custom museum-grade case with active climate controls that allows environmentally sensitive objects to be displayed safely.
Featuring 40 tokens, highlights from the National Museum's extensive collection, this exhibition embodies stories of love, anguish, and separation. For convicts waiting to be transported from England to Australia, an engraved love token was a personal way of saying goodbye.
Funding will support the touring of the show case exhibition to venues in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.
Touring funding: $32,810
National Gallery of Australia
Fourth National Indigenous Triennial
The National Indigenous Art Triennial is one of the country’s leading First Nations art exhibitions. The fourth iteration, Ceremony, is drawn together by senior curator Hetti Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon women from central Australia. Perkin’s role is integral in upholding the Gallery’s commitment to foregrounding and celebrating First Nations perspectives, artists and art.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Western Australia.
Touring funding: $63,555
Single Channel
This exhibition brings together key video works from 1970s to the present day. The selection traces the emergence of video, its connection to portraiture, and its promise of narrative possibility. Focusing on works by First Nations and Australian artists, the exhibition includes influential films by artists such as Sue Ford, Mike Parr, Destiny Deacon, Tracey Moffatt and Daniel Crooks.
Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in Western Australia.
Touring funding: $182,754