Indigenous arts and languages

Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)

Waves and Water

This exhibition is part of the ANMM's Sail Away program and comprises iconic photographs which capture Australian beach culture from the 1930s to 2000. Sun bathers, swimmers, surfers and surf-life savers are depicted in this collection of photographs from the ANMM collection.

The exhibition will tour to four venues in regional Victoria during 2013–14 with further venues scheduled for 2014–15.

Touring Funding: $17,000

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness

This exhibition focuses on the life and work of Arthur Boyd. This is the first exhibition to consider the social consciousness of Boyd's art, and to convey the political life of the artist. Paintings, prints, and ceramics from the Bundanon Trust Collection augmented by works on loan, offer insights into how one of Australia's greatest artists responded to the prevailing social milieu.

This exhibition will tour to five venues in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Queensland during 2013–14.

Touring Funding: $73,155

Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD)

Behind the Lines 2013

Behind the Lines is an annual exhibition of Australian political cartoons which presents a snapshot of politics, public sentiment and political commentary by cartoonists. It includes work from cartoonists published in both print and online media across Australia, as well as historical political cartoons from the MoAD collection.

Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition to four venues in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.

Development and Touring Funding: $55,276

Behind the Lines 2012

Funding will support the continued tour of the Behind the Lines 2012 exhibition to two venues in New South Wales and Western Australia.

Touring Funding: $11,000

National Archives of Australia (NAA)

A Ticket to Paradise? Lives and experiences of Australia's six million post-war migrants

This exhibition will explore the experiences of individuals, couples and families who migrated to Australia after World War II. With the settlement of six million migrants in the country since the war, this exhibition will examine the Australian Government's post-war immigration policies and promotional campaigns, through the display and interpretation of documents, photographs and footage recorded by the Department of Immigration.

Funding will support the development this exhibition.

Development Funding: $130,000

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)

The Art of Sound—Exhibiting Australian Sounds

This exhibition combines sound recordings from the NFSA's national audio visual collection and curated artworks from regional art collections in a range of media including paintings, prints, works on paper, photography, sculpture and ceramics, mixed and new media, and video art. The combined artworks and sounds provide a multi-sensory exhibition in which viewers can enjoy, consider and explore the implications of the intersection of art and sound.

The exhibition will tour to regional venues in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.

Touring Funding: $80,000

National Gallery of Australia (NGA)

Atua: Sacred Gods

This exhibition will explore the concepts of 'gods' or 'idols' as represented in Polynesian art. Atua: Sacred Gods focuses on the relationship between art objects created during the pre Christian period in Polynesia and spirit beings which are generally known as 'atua'.

This exhibition will enable the NGA to exhibit its significant collection of Polynesian art, alongside sculptures drawn from over thirty international collections.

Touring Funding: $185,000

Carol Jerrems: Photographic Artist

This exhibition surveys the work of one of Australia's best-known art photographers from the 1970s. Jerrems exposed the new mood of social justice and personal freedom symbolised by her own generation of affluent post-war baby boomers. The exhibition presents the finest of Jerrems' works and explores the broad themes of the socially marginalised, the development of women's liberation, sexuality and political action.

The exhibition will tour to four venues in 2013–14 including locations in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales.

Touring Funding: $33,717

Bodywork: Australian jewellery 1970–2012

This exhibition includes the work of 40 contemporary Australian jewellers exploring the relationship of jewellery to the body. The jewellery celebrates the ground-breaking design of Australia's most renowned jewellers and has been chosen to inspire, intrigue and inform.

The exhibition will tour to four regional venues in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia in 2013–14.

Development and Touring Funding: $14,270

National Library of Australia (NLA)

Mapping our World—Terra incognita to Australia

This exhibition traces the development of mapping and demonstrates how geographers, cartographers and explorers attempted to conceptualise the world through maps, from the ancient world through to more modern times. The NLA's significant collection of maps and charts, atlases, globes and scientific instruments will be supplemented by major international loans.

Development and Touring Funding: $160,000

National Museum of Australia (NMA)

Encounters [working title]

This exhibition will feature a selection of the British Museum's Australian collection, including a significant collection of Indigenous material, assembled over two centuries ago. It will contribute to understanding the diversity and history of Indigenous material culture, histories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their relationships with early explorers and settlers. The exhibition will provide an opportunity to detail these histories and reconnect this material with contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition which is being developed in collaboration with the British Museum and in partnership with the Indigenous communities that will be represented.

Development Funding: $150,000

National Portrait Gallery (NPG)

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2013 and 2014)

Established four years ago, the National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual prize that promotes excellence in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. The competition attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the development and touring of the 2013 and 2014 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibitions which will tour to venues in Queensland and Tasmania.

Development and Touring Funding: $36,456

Paul Kelly and The Portraits

This exhibition features portraits of Paul Kelly including photographs, paintings and a specially commissioned digital video portrait by cinematographer Warwick Thornton. The exhibition examines Paul Kelly's musical life and work over the course of his performance career through portraiture. It will encourage engagement and discussion about Kelly's storytelling of the Australian landscape and its people.

The exhibition will tour to four regional venues in New South Wales and Victoria in 2013–14 with further venues scheduled for 2014–15.

Touring Funding: $34,126

Australian of the Year: Vivid life stories

This exhibition documents the lives of 'Australian of the Year' award recipients. It will draw principally from the NPG's collection which includes portraits of most award recipients made at different stages in their lives, encompassing a range of artistic media and a diversity of styles.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition.

Development Funding: $20,000

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