Funding is available for national collecting institutions to help them develop and tour their collections nationally and internationally. Funding recipients for 2024–25 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 and Western Australia.

Touring funding: $93,780

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 touring of this exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $132,700

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2024

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 Victoria.

Touring funding: $179,700

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 South Australia.

Touring funding: $26,750

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.

Touring funding: $53,102

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 touring of this exhibition for venues in New South Wales.

Touring funding: $38,913

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 Queensland and Western Australia.

Touring funding: $93,955

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, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.

Touring funding: $70,550

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024

This annual exhibition promotes the best contemporary photographic portraiture by professional and aspiring Australian photographers.

Funding will support the touring of the 2024 exhibition to venues in Western Australia.

Touring funding: $48,000

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. 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 Queensland.

Touring funding: $36,060

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 Queensland.

Touring funding: $12,200

Defining Symbols of Australia

Based on the National Museum of Australia's collection, this exhibition presents the history, meanings and significance of eight important Australian symbols in a series of graphic panels that can tour to smaller regional venues that do not have the usual climactic/security controls of larger organisations.

Funding will support the touring of the show case exhibition to venues in Queensland.

Touring funding: $7,575

National Gallery of Australia

Skywhales: Across Australia

This exhibition features two large hot air balloon sculptures by Patricia Piccinini—'Skywhale' and 'Skywhalepapa'. These will be presented at major community events and festivals.

Funding will support freight and travel costs for the touring of the balloons to venues in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia.

Touring funding: $166,511

Enjoy This Trip: The Art of Music Posters

This exhibition presents Australian and International music posters from the Gallery's collection spanning the 1960s to 1980s. The tour will celebrate this era and resonate with local audiences interested in art, graphic design, music and more.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to venues in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia

Touring funding: $40,204