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Australian National Maritime Museum

On their own—Britain's child migrants

An international touring exhibition about the history of child migration from Britain to Australia and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries. During this period about 150,000 children and youths were sent from the UK to British dominions across the world to work in various forms of labour—far from their parents and homes. Taken from poverty and disadvantage it was believed that they would have a better life working the expanses of the British Empire.

The ANMM is working in collaboration with the National Museums Liverpool, UK to create an exhibition that will travel in Australia and the UK.

Touring to SA (Adelaide).

Touring funding: $74,700

Sons of Sinbad—the photographs of Alan Villiers

Photographs of Alan Villiers aboard Arabian Dhows, 1938–39, record the old Arabian sailing traditions and coastal trade routes in the Red Sea, coast of Arabia, east coast of Africa and the Gulf; the great skills and hardship endured by the sailors and pearl divers of the Gulf; and the passing of a way of life which he admired.

Alan Villiers was born in Melbourne and worked as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury. He donated his collection of photographs to the National Maritime Museum, UK which will be supplying scanned images to ANMM for this exhibition which will tour to the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.

Touring to TAS (Hobart).

Touring funding: $9,800

Saltwater Freshwater—ATSI prints

Part of the ANMM's travelling exhibition program Sail Away, thisexhibition features a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prints with the common theme of water. Featuring everything from marine life, to water as a place to hunt and fish, to being the site of dreaming stories and also as a place of contact with non-Indigenous Australians.

Touring to SA (Adelaide) and NSW (Maitland and Murwillumbah).

Touring funding: $15,500

Bundanon Trust

Connections in Australian Modernism: Bundanon and Heide

Development of a joint exhibition (with Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne) that draws on the common strengths of both institutions in Australian modernism. Themes will be explored in relation to artists such as Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Albert Tucker who have strong linkages to both institutions. Possible themes include the artists' common move from Melbourne to the international stage, social activism and the reflection of contemporary politics in the artists' works and their intertwining personal lives and its manifestation in their art.

Development funding: $50,000

National Gallery of Australia

Anton Bruehl: In the spotlight

The first major exhibition to showcase the work of this important Australian expatriate photographer will include framed photographs, multimedia and ephemera components and will include a new monograph on the artist.

Touring to NT (Alice Springs).

Touring funding $75,500

Australian Portraits: 1880–1960

The exhibition of portraits will provide a compelling image of Australians over the course of time, from the theatrical Victorians and Edwardians, through modern women of the 1920s to the angry Antipodeans of the 1940s and 1950s. During this period shifts in values and politics were matched by changing artistic movements: realism, tonalism, formalism, expressionism and surrealism. A real sense of these cultural and artistic changes can be realised from the selected portraits.

The exhibition will include a number of much loved works from the collection as well as works that have rarely been seen in public.

Touring to QLD (Brisbane) and NT (Darwin).

Touring funding: $99,500

To please the living and the dead: ancestral art of Southeast Asia

The first major exhibition to focus on art which venerates ancestors and spirits of nature, the oldest and most enduring of Southeast Asian religions. It will include masterpieces from prehistory to the twentieth century from broad geographic regions and will detail important links between the various cultures of Southeast Asia. Works will come from a number of key galleries and museums in countries such as France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore, the Philippines, China and the USA.

Touring to ACT (Canberra).

Touring funding $150,000

National Film and Sound Archive

Touring the Sounds of Australia

The Sounds of Australia celebrates the unique and diverse recorded sound culture and history of Australia. Launched in 2007 with a foundation list of 10, public nominations are called for each year and 10 new recordings are added to the registry.

The registry includes recognisable Australian 'heritage' songs Waltzing Matilda, On the Road to Gundagai and the Aeroplane Jelly theme; contemporary selections from the Easybeats, Johnny O'Keefe, the Warumpi Band, Billy Thorpe; Gough Whitlam's 'Kerr's Cur' speech from 1975 and the voices of Don Bradman and Dad and Dave; and recorded Indigenous songs and language from Tasmania recorded in 1899 and 1903 and more.

Touring VIC (Mildura) and NSW (Gunnedah).

Touring funding $159,000

National Museum of Australia

Symbols of Australia

Symbols of Australia focuses on the role of symbols in the formation and promotion of Australian national identity. The exhibition will use both objects and multimedia. The exhibition's aim is to highlight the diversity of Australian symbology: the official and the popular, the organic and the imposed, the natural and the man-made, the old and the new. The chosen symbols include: the kangaroo, the wattle, the flag, Uluru, the boomerang, Sydney Harbour Bridge, the billy, Vegemite, the Southern Cross and the Holden.

Touring to QLD (Townsville and Brisbane) and NSW (Wagga Wagga).

Touring funding $56,690

From little things big things grow

This exhibition has developed from an Australian Research Council Linkage project which included contributions from the National Museum of Australia, Monash University, the State Library of Victoria and the National Archives of Australia.

Using a chronological approach, the exhibition follows the history of the efforts of Australians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to improve the social and legal status of Indigenous Australians. It also highlights the personal stories of the activists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, famous and not so well known, who fought to change Australian society.

Touring to Vic (Melbourne), SA (Adelaide) and NSW (Sydney).

Touring funding $48,310

Canning Stock Route project

The Canning Stock Route (CSR) exhibition is being developed in a collaborative partnership between FORM, the National Museum of Australia, and nine participating indigenous art centres and groups. FORM is an independent not-for-profit arts and cultural organisation, working in urban, regional and remote Western Australia.

The CSR Project is a pioneering, multi-faceted contemporary arts and cultural initiative, celebrating the lives and stories of Western Desert Aboriginal peoples from countries surrounding the Canning Stock Route.

There are 105 Aboriginal artists, elders, countrymen and professionals contributing and collaborating as part of the CSR Project and 116 artworks and many supporting materials will be featured in the touring exhibition.

Development funding $102,000

National Portrait Gallery

Inner worlds: portraits and psychology

This exhibition will engage key moments of intense connection between psychology and portraiture in Australian art and social history. The exhibition will draw heavily on other national and state based collections and original research will be undertaken which will draw together, examine and interpret these works.

Development funding of $56,500

National photographic portrait prize 2011

This annual event is intended to promote the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers.

Touring to WA (Bunbury).

Touring funding $21,000

Beyond the self: portraiture from Asia

The artists in this exhibition all explore historical and/or cultural constructs to examine contemporary life. The exhibition will present the works of major artists from India and Indonesia with a small selection from other Asian countries.

Development funding $67,500

National photographic portrait prize 2010

This annual event is intended to promote the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers.

Touring to NSW (Bathurst, Wagga Wagga and Mosman).

Touring funding $14,000

Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)

On their own: Britain's child migrants

On their own: Britain's child migrants explores the history of child migration schemes of the 19th and 20th centuries and features some artefacts not previously seen in Australian museums. From the late 19th century Britain operated schemes that removed more than 100,000 children from their homes and families and sent them alone to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries. The ANMM has collaborated with the National Museums Liverpool, United Kingdom, to develop the exhibition and it is the first time that this important story has been the subject of an exhibition.

The exhibition will tour to venues in South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

Touring Funding: $47,600

Freshwater Saltwater: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prints

Water holds deep spiritual and cultural significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the vast network of rivers, creeks, billabongs, lakes and coastal regions represent a rich source of food and culture. Freshwater Saltwater showcases a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prints from the ANMM's collection with the common theme of water and includes works by Ian Abdulla, Banduk Marika, Denis Nona and Brian Robinson. The artists have used the medium of printmaking to strengthen their cultural identity and their connection back to 'country'.

The exhibition will tour to venues in New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Touring Funding: $23,500

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: the erotic in nature

Arthur Boyd: the erotic in nature will focus exclusively on the work of Arthur Boyd. It examines his surrealist and expressionist synthesis from the 1940s onwards with a particular emphasis on the erotic, death and religion in his landscape works. The Bundanon Trust is working collaboratively with the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, to develop the exhibition which will include two and three dimensional works ranging from images of lovers and couplings to pro-environmental themes and how Boyd explored the sensuality of the landscape itself.

Development Funding: $50,000

Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD)

Marnti Warajanga

Marnti Warajanga is a photographic exhibition focusing on the democratic history of the Indigenous people of the Pilbara, Western Australia, and was developed in collaboration with Wanga Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre and photographer Tobias Titz. The exhibition features 34 portraits and the personal reflections of Indigenous people in their own words which bear witness to momentous historical events such as the 1967 referendum and more recently the government's formal apology to Indigenous peoples.

The exhibition will tour to a number of venues in Western Australia.

Development and Touring Funding: $63,662

National Gallery of Australia (NGA)

Fred Williams Retrospective

Fred Williams is considered to be one of Australia's iconic artists and this retrospective is timely in the context of re-evaluating his contribution to Australian art practice. Curated by Deborah Hart, the exhibition includes works from 1950 through to his late paintings in 1981 and traces Williams' artistic development that reveals the peaks and dramatic shifts of his career. The Fred Williams Retrospective includes a selection of 85 paintings and 30 gouaches from both public and private collections and is one of the most significant NGA exhibitions to tour in recent years.

The exhibition will tour to venues in Victoria and South Australia.

Development and Touring Funding: $147,000

Roy Lichtenstein

The NGA holds over 450 works by the world renowned American artist Roy Lichtenstein who is synonymously related to the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Lichtenstein is one of the most instantly recognisable international artists of the 20th century as he used popular culture as a source of inspiration. The exhibition has been drawn largely from the 7,000 works in the NGA's Kenneth Tyler Print collection, the most comprehensive selection of 20th century American art outside America. The exhibition will also include Lichtenstein's sculptural works that are rarely seen outside Canberra.

The exhibition will tour to venues in Victoria and Queensland and proposed venues in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.

Development and Touring Funding: $85,048

Stars of the Tokyo Stage: Kabuki Prints of Natori Shunsen

Drawn from the NGA's collection, the exhibition will explore the dynamic world of Japan's kabuki theatre through the striking actor prints of Natori Shunsen (1886–1960). The exhibition will be supplemented with a small collection of kabuki robes and ukiyo-e prints. Kabuki draws on Japan's rich folklore, literature and history, as well as violent, romantic and scandalous topical events. It will be the first solo exhibition to be held outside Japan since the 1930s.

The exhibition is being developed primarily for regional venues and is expected to tour to venues in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.

Development and Touring Funding: $70,000

National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)

Sounds of Australia (Cooee Cabaret)

Cooee Cabaret is an original family cabaret show that weaves together iconic Australian songs and sound recordings drawn from the NFSA's Sounds of Australia registry and is supported by online access to the NFSA's collection and interactive audience engagement. Sounds of Australia celebrates the unique and diverse recorded sound culture and histories of Australia. Cooee Cabaret has already toured to eleven locations across five states and territories and during 2011 and 2012 will visit several locations in Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

The exhibition will tour to Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

Touring Funding: $168,700

National Museum of Australia (NMA)

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route includes 97 Indigenous artworks and is a joint project between the NMA and FORM, an independent arts organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. It presents the history of the Canning Stock Route from an Indigenous perspective involving Indigenous artists, traditional custodians and emerging Indigenous filmmakers. The exhibition will be displayed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being hosted in Perth in late October 2011 and will provide an opportunity for international exposure and public access to a historically significant exhibition.

The exhibition will tour to Western Australia.

Touring Funding: $300,000

National Library of Australia (NLA)

Mr J W Lewin: Painter & Naturalist

Mr J W Lewin: Painter & Naturalist focuses on the life of Mr J W Lewin (1770-1879), the first free professional artist to settle in Australia. Lewin was the most prolific colonial artist and first printmaker in NSW and his mission was to collect, draw and publish Australia's natural history for European audiences. The exhibition celebrates Lewin and will bring together for the first time works held in Australian and major international collections. It comprises 150 original and published works by Lewin with a primary focus on Australian flora and fauna and is the first exhibition to present a comprehensive representation of his extensive oeuvre.

The exhibition will tour to a venue in New South Wales and will also be displayed at the NLA in the Australian Capital Territory.

Development and Touring Funding: $55,000

Patrick White: Eye of the Storm

Patrick White: Eye of the Storm celebrates the centenary of the birth of Australia's only Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, Patrick White. The exhibition will bring together the distributed collections of Patrick White material in Australia. It provides the Australian public with a rare opportunity to see material which has recently come to light alongside the 'hidden' White archive acquired by the NLA which will also be largely exhibited for the first time. The extensive loan of paintings owned by White and donated to the Art Gallery of NSW will be a highlight of the exhibition. Personal items, photographs, mementos and souvenirs documenting the many facets of White—author, playwright, activist and collector —will also be included.

The exhibition will tour to a venue in New South Wales and will also be displayed at the NLA in the Australian Capital Territory.

Touring Funding: $35,000

National Portrait Gallery (NPG)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011

Established four years ago, the National Photographic Portrait Prize promotes the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers and this year attracted over 1200 entries, demonstrating the popularity of the prize. The exhibition will include 55 works selected by the judging panel. Through the National Photographic Portrait Prize tour and exhibition catalogue the NPG aims to increase access to photographic portraiture in regional Australia.

The exhibition will tour to venues in Western Australia and Victoria.

Touring Funding: $39,300

Inner Worlds: Portraits & Psychology

Curated by Christopher Chapman, Inner Worlds: Portraits & Psychology engages key moments of intense connection between psychology and portraiture in Australian art and social history. The exhibition comprises 45 portraits and includes leading figures associated with psychological research and psychoanalysis in Australia from WW1 to the 1950s and examples of the work of artists whose experiments with portraiture are strongly informed by their interest in psychology, the subconscious mind and intense mental states.

The exhibition will tour to venues in Queensland and Victoria.

Touring Funding: $25,900

Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia

The exhibition Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia will examine the representation of the self in current South and Southeast Asian art practice through the work of major artists from Indonesia and India, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia and also include a small selection of Australian Asian artists. The artists in the exhibition all explore historical and/or cultural constructs to examine contemporary life. The exhibition comprises 55 works including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing and media works. Once developed it will be the NPG's first touring exhibition featuring international works from the region.

Development Funding: $45,080

Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)

On their own—Britain's child migrants

The exhibition presents the story of child migration from Britain in the late 19th century and includes cultural material from National Cultural Institutions, other organisations including the National Museum Liverpool UK, and private individuals. It opened at the ANMM on 10 November 2010 and has already toured to South Australia and Victoria.

Touring Funding: $113,309

Freshwater Saltwater: ATSI prints

The exhibition includes 30 framed prints by Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists with the common theme of water. Funding is sought to tour the exhibition to Bribie Island which is the final leg of a 7 venue tour.

This is a multi-venue exhibition, touring to regional locations, that promotes broad access to Australian cultural material.

Touring Funding: $5,455

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: Art & Empathy

This will be the first major exhibition to consider the social consciousness that infused Arthur Boyd's art and to convey the political life of Boyd, linking his actions with his artwork. Funding is sought to assist with the continuing development of the exhibition which is scheduled commence touring in May 2013.

This exhibition promotes access to the collection from Bundanon Trust and encourages partnerships across institutions.

Touring Funding: $69,091

Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD)

Behind the Lines 2012

This exhibition presents the best Australian political cartoons of 2012. It will tour to nine venues in Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. Funding is sought for touring costs, including duplicating the exhibition so it can reach a wider audience and freight costs.

This exhibition promotes access to Australian collections, particularly to regional audiences, and encourages partnerships and collaboration between MOAD and other institutions.

Touring Funding: $52,000

Beyond Reasonable Drought

Photographic exhibition and outreach developmental program focusing on the social, economic and political impacts of the drought that broke in 2011.

Touring Funding: $35,700

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)

The Art of Sound—Exhibiting Australian Sounds

A selection of Australian sound recordings from the NFSA collection partnered with a package of sounds and artworks selected from local/regional collections to create ‘art and sound' exhibitions. Each exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public programs involving the curators, local artists, students and children and the general public.

Touring Funding: $135,000

National Gallery of Australia (NGA)

2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial: unDisclosed

This exhibition features 20 Indigenous artists at the cutting edge of contemporary art and was curated by guest Indigenous curator Carly Lane. Funding is sought to tour the exhibition to three states, with Queensland and South Australia already confirmed.

This exhibition promotes broad access to Australian cultural material and encourages partnerships and collaboration between the NGA and other institutions.

Touring Funding: $141,775

Capital and Country: The federation years 1900–1913

This exhibition will be produced specifically for the Centenary of Canberra in 1913 and will tour to 6-8 venues in all states and territories. Funding is sought for freight and the production of printed material.

This is a multi-venue exhibition touring to regional locations, it promotes broad access to Australian cultural material and encourages partnerships and collaboration between the NGA and other institutions.

Touring Funding: $104,020

Fred Williams: Infinite horizons

This exhibition is a retrospective of Fred William's paintings and gouaches from the 1940's to 1981. The exhibition showcased at the NGA in 2011. Funding is sought for freight associated with touring the exhibition to Victoria and South Australia.

This exhibition promotes broad access to Australian cultural material, encourages partnerships and collaboration between the NGA and other institutions, and includes international loans.

National Library of Australia (NLA)

Mapping our World—Terra incognita to Australia

This exhibition will trace the development of the mapping of the world and Australia. Due to the large number of international loans and light sensitive paper-based objects, the exhibition will only be displayed at the NLA. Development funding is sought for conservation, framing, loan fees and research.

This exhibition will expand Australian's appreciation of international cultural material through enabling works from international collections to be exhibited in Australia.

Touring Funding: $113,636

The Life of Patrick White

This exhibition celebrates the work of Australia's only Nobel Laureate for Literature. It was developed by the NLA in partnership with the State Library of NSW. Due to the rare and fragile nature of the works, the exhibition will only be held at the NLA and State Library of NSW. Funding is sought for freight, marketing and programs costs.

This exhibition promotes access to Australian cultural material through touring works from the NLA. It also encourages partnerships and collaboration.

Touring Funding: $20,000

Lewin: Wild Art

This is the first exhibition to concentrate on Lewin's work and life and is a collaboration between the State Library of NSW and the NLA. The exhibition will only be displayed at two venues due to the fragility of the works on paper. Funding is sought for freight.

This exhibition encourages partnerships and collaboration and includes international loans.

Touring Funding: $19,330

National Museum of Australia (NMA)

Canning Stock Route

This exhibition tells the story of the Canning Stock Route's impact on Aboriginal people and the importance of the Country that surrounds it. Funding is sought to tour the exhibition to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. It has previously been displayed at the NMA and at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth. It is currently being exhibited in the Australian Museum in Sydney.

This exhibition promotes broad access to Australian cultural material through touring works and encourages partnerships and collaboration between the NMA and other institutions.

Touring Funding: $35,677

National Portrait Gallery (NPG)

Elegance in exile: portrait drawings from Colonial Australia

This exhibition features artworks by convict artists and includes many artworks that will be exhibited for the first time. Due to the rare and fragile nature of the works, the exhibition will only tour to Tasmania. Funding is sought for touring the exhibition and associated learning resources.

The exhibition promotes access to Australian cultural material and increases partnerships and collaboration between the NPG and other institutions.

Touring Funding: $31,085

Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia

This exhibition focuses on the representation of the self in contemporary Asian art. It will present the work of major artists, including Asian-Australian artists, from a range of countries including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand. It will tour to Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Funding is sought for freight costs.

This exhibition increases levels of touring by the NPG with particular emphasis on multiple venues. It also increases appreciation of international cultural material.

Touring Funding: $67,295

National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) 2012

The NPP is an annual competition that promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It will tour to four venues in New South Wales and one in South Australia. Funding is sought for freight costs.

This exhibition increases levels of touring by the NPG, with particular emphasis on multiple venues and regional audiences.

Touring Funding: $14,078

National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) 2013

The NPPP is popular with the public and an analysis of the entries indicates an increase in entries from regions to which the NPPP has toured. Development funding is sought for a catalogue to accompany the 2013 exhibition.

This exhibition will increase the level of touring by the NPG, with particular emphasis on multiple venues and regional audiences.

Touring Funding: $4,545

Australian National Maritime Museum

The Art of Science: Baudin's voyagers 1800–1804

This collaborative exhibition, led by the Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museum of Australia, will present paintings and drawings created by French artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia in 1800–1804.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.

Touring funding: $167,355

Bundanon Trust

The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn exhibition showcases 25 prints by Arthur Boyd born from the creative collaboration between the artist and Australian-born poet Peter Porter. It includes extracts from Porter's 20 poems on the theme and explores Boyd's approach to printmaking and its place in his artistic career.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to four inner regional venues in New South Wales and Queensland in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $17,390

Arthur Boyd: The Shoalhaven Years

Arthur Boyd: The Shoalhaven Years will concentrate on a little known part of one of Australia’s most famous artists, his work inspired by the landscape of the Shoalhaven River surrounding Bundanon. The works included in this exhibition will convey the artist’s relationship with the landscape that became his home and now a major legacy for the Australian people.

Funding will support development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues across Australia.

Development funding: $67,864

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2016 and 2017

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 2016 exhibition to regional venues in South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria, and development of the 2017 exhibition.

Development and touring funding: $82,225

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Awesome Achievers: Stories of Australians of the Year

This exhibition will showcase 39 works and audio visual materials showcasing 28 recipients of the Australian of Year Award. It explores concepts of national identity and celebrates an extraordinary array of talent and achievement.

Funding will support the tour of this exhibition to regional New South Wales in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $14,420

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive which explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working within the Australian feature-film industry throughout history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $28,000

Bare: Degrees of undress

This exhibition showcases 50 portraits across a range of media exploring the degrees of nakedness and includes engaging multimedia elements including a documentary and game.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to four venues in regional New South Wales.

Touring funding: $19,074

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2017 and 2018)

This annual exhibition promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the touring of the 2017 exhibition and development of the 2018 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition. The 2017 exhibition will tour to five venues in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.

Development and touring funding: $28,454

National Archives of Australia

Secret: Spies and Espionage in Australia

This exhibition will explore the history and contemporary role of espionage in Australia by looking at the popular culture presentation of spies versus the reality of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) business and how technology has impacted on ASIO work.

The proposed funding will enable the continued development of this exhibition that will tour to every state and territory.

Development funding: $78,535

National Gallery of Australia

Abstract Woman: Australian women abstraction artists

This exhibition reveals the vital contribution Australian women artists have made to abstract art and includes painting, sculpture, printmaking and applied arts. Drawn entirely from the Gallery's Australian art collection, 90 works in a range of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking and applied arts will take audiences on a journey from the early 20th century through to the present day.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to four venues in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $23,641

The National Picture

This collaborative exhibition with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will focus on portrayals of Tasmanian Aboriginal people from the declaration of martial law in Tasmania in 1828 through until 1851. The works of Benjamin Duterrau, colonial Tasmanian artist, is central to the exhibition.

Funding will support the development of this exhibition with touring planned for the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Development funding: $100,000

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight.

The exhibition will tour nationally with venues in Northern Territory, Queensland, regional New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania..

Touring funding: $12,250

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 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 regional venues in Queensland and New South Wales for 2017–18.

Touring funding: $121,900

Midawarr—Harvest: wild food and art in an Arnhem Land flood plain.

This exhibition will display a select suite of works by Mulkun Wirrpanda, senior female artist of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, alongside a commissioned landscape by artist John Wolseley to produce a watercolour tableau of the Garrangari and Garrangali floodplain of Yolngu country to explore Yolngu ecology.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, with future touring to New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory.

Development funding: $37,935

National Film and Sound Archive

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $28,000

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National Library of Australia

Cook 2018 (working title)

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Cook's departure from England, this exhibition celebrates Cook's contribution to science, navigation and the Pacific and explores his complex legacy.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will be presented in 2018 in the Australian Capital Territory.

Development funding: $100,000

George French Angas

This exhibition will survey the work of colonial artist and naturalist George French Angus who made hundreds of watercolour drawings of the colonial frontiers in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa between 1844 and 1847.

Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition, which will tour to South Australia.

Development funding: $7,200

Australian National Maritime Museum

The Art of Science: Baudin's voyagers 1800–1804

This collaborative exhibition, led by the Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museum of Australia, will present paintings and drawings created by French artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia in 1800–1804.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.

Touring funding: $153,077

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul (previously The Shoalhaven Years)

Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul will concentrate 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 included in this exhibition will convey the artist's relationship with the landscape that became his home and now a major legacy for the Australian people.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to inner regional venues in New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $57,000

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2017

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 2017 exhibition to venues in New South Wales, and Victoria.

Touring funding: $32,000

Behind the Lines 2018

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 2018 exhibition to venues in the Northern Territory, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Development and Touring funding: $70,200

National Film and Sound Archive

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

Development funding: $132,913

National Gallery of Australia

The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War

This collaborative exhibition with Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will focus on portrayals of Tasmanian Aboriginal people from the declaration of martial law in Tasmania in 1828 through until 1851. The work of Benjamin Duterrau, colonial Tasmanian artist is central to the exhibition, including his painting The Conciliation.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in Tasmania.

Touring funding: $95,634

Art Deco

This exhibition presents works from the National Gallery of Australia's collection. In the 1920s, Australian artists responded to the international movement towards modernism and Art Deco styles. Shaking off the austerity of World War I they created images of an abundant nation filled with strong, youthful figures, capturing the vitalism of a nation reborn.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $39,981

The Ned Kelly Series

This project is a national tour of Sidney Nolan's 1946—47 paintings on the theme of 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly. In 1977, Sunday Reed donated 25 of the 27 paintings in Nolan's first exhibited Kelly series to the NGA. These 26 paintings constitute one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century and Nolan's invention of an original and starkly simplified image for Ned Kelly—as a slotted black square atop a horse—has become a part of the shared iconography of Australia.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to venues in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Touring funding: $36,540

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight.

The exhibition will tour nationally with venues in Northern Territory, Queensland, regional New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.

Touring funding: $26,415

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 development of the exhibition, which will be presented in South Australia.

Development and touring funding: $12,000

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 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 regional venues in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $90,000

Midawarr—Harvest: wild food and art in an Arnhem Land flood plain.

This exhibition will display a select suite of works by Mulkun Wirrpanda, senior female artist of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, alongside a commissioned landscape by artist John Wolseley to produce a watercolour tableau of the Garrangari and Garrangali floodplain of Yolngu country to explore Yolngu ecology.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Victoria and the Northern Territory.

Touring funding: $110,000

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Express Yourself

This exhibition draws from the Gallery's contemporary collection and highlights portraits of Australians whose unique life experiences symbolise social and cultural themes. The portraits attest to the facility of photographic portraiture to convey compelling psychological depth. The exhibition will premiere a newly-commissioned portrait of Rosie Batty by photographer Nikki Toole.

Funding will support the tour of this exhibition to regional galleries across Australia, including delivery of outreach education programs.

Touring funding: $29,612

Starstruck: On Location

This exhibition is a condensed version of the Starstruck: Portraits from the movies collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. Starstruck explores through portraiture, the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working within the Australian feature-film industry throughout history.

Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition in small venues with limited environmental controls.

Development and touring funding: $34,500

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2018 and 2019)

This annual exhibition promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the touring of the 2018 exhibition and development of the 2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, including delivery of outreach education programs. The 2017 exhibition will tour to small regional venues in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales.

Development and touring funding: $67,698

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, including delivery of outreach education programs, which will tour to venues in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

Development and touring funding: $12,430

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

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

Descriptions of the six successful projects funded in Round 15 of the Visions of Australia program. Funding is for a single year unless otherwise stated. All amounts are expressed as GST exclusive.

National Gallery of Australia—Know My Name: Australian Women Arts

$227,551 Touring funding (over 2 years)

Previously on display at the National Gallery of Australia, the tour of Know My Name will bring together more than 500 works to tell a new story of Australian art, and upend the assumption that modern and contemporary art is a male-dominated narrative.

NETS Victoria—Yesterday today tomorrow (working title)

$263,137 Touring funding

The project foregrounds Country as an active participant, and brings together multi‑disciplinary Barkandji/Barkindji artists to share their deep connection to each other and to their Ancestors.

Museums & Galleries of NSW—Education Development for National Tour of Dennis Golding | POWER—The Future is Here

$52,455 Development funding

This project will be funded to develop tailored education material and public programming that will provide access for Australian audiences to the high-quality works of First Nation artist Dennis Golding and First Nation curator Kyra Kum-Sing.

McClelland Sculpture Ltd—Current—Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White

$224,011 Touring funding

Current features three First Nations artists who affirm their powerful connection to their lands, waters and ancestors. The exhibition celebrates each of the artists' three practices which are related in thematic concerns and material experimentation.

Bookend Enterprises Pty Ltd—Extension to the Sixteen Legs: Enter the Cave Exhibition Regional Tour

$221,600 Touring funding (over 2 years)

A travelling exhibition of photography, dark-fantasy digital artworks, large scale sculptures and supporting local artist contributions based around the magical environmental and cultural significance of Australia's deepest caves.

Museums and Gallery Services Queensland—How Soon Is Now? Works about time and space in two and a half dimensions by Bruce Reynolds

$163,885 Touring funding

A new national touring exhibition showcasing the cast relief works and two-dimensional collaged linoleum works of acclaimed contemporary artist, Bruce Reynolds.