Art Across Australia

hot air balloon sculptures flying over The Grampians mountain range

Patricia Piccinini, Skywhales: Every Heart Sings, Hamilton Gallery, VIC, 2022, image supplied, © Patricia Piccinini.

The national collection is for all Australians. Through our touring program and national engagement strategies, the collection is shared based on the inclusive principles of mutual benefit and exchange. We work closely with our partners to deliver projects and exchange ideas that support audiences in different contexts and environments.

For over three decades, the national collection has been shared beyond Kamberri/Canberra, in communities across Australia and the world through dedicated touring exhibitions, loans programs and regional initiatives.

Through the Art Across Australia program, Australians have access to the national collection in more ways than ever before. From short-term and long-term loans to dedicated exhibitions, there a range of diverse initiatives that will bring the national collection to your community.

Touring Exhibitions

For over three decades, the national collection has been shared throughout communities across Australia and the world, through our dedicated touring exhibitions.

Sharing the National Collection

Under the National Cultural Policy ‘Revive’, the National Gallery’s Sharing the National Collection initiative will receive $11.8 million over 4 years. This support will allow us to share some of our much-loved works with regional and suburban galleries, and cultural institutions across the country on long-term loans.

Regional Initiatives Program

The Regional Initiatives Program is a short-term loan program supported by Metal Manufactures Ltd, conceived specifically to provide regional Australians with access to the national art collection.

Art Cases

Art Cases comprises five art-filled cases that travel to schools, libraries, community centres, arts centres, galleries and aged care homes to inspire creativity, inclusivity and learning through art making and storytelling.

WHAT'S ON NEAR YOU

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Stories & Ideas

Feature

Sharing the National Collection
A year in review

A person moves Claude Monet's Haystacks from a packing box

A year on from the launch of Sharing the National Collection, the National Gallery reflects on sharing art across Australia in a bold new way.

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Article

Celebrating 12 million visitors

Photo of gallery space

In 2024, the National Gallery's touring exhibitions reached 12 million visitors and to celebrate, we reflect on 12 of the most popular tours.

Read Time: 22 minutes
Feature

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curator Tina Baum shares the art, histories and realities of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.

Read Time: 21 minutes
Feature

Touring the collection

Helping the Gallery to be a truly national institution, the Touring Exhibitions team share how they tour the collection here and overseas.

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Feature

Touring the collection

Helping the Gallery to be a truly national institution, the Touring Exhibitions team share how they tour the collection here and overseas.

Read Time: 14 minutes
Touring Exhibition

Single Channel

On Tour

Walkway Gallery, Bordertown SA
21 Oct 2024 – 24 Jan 2025

This exhibition draws together key contemporary video works from the national collection.

Touring Exhibition

Clarice Beckett
Paintings from the National Collection

On Tour
An abstract colourful painting of a person standing by a suburban backstreet with blue sky.

24 Aug – 24 Nov 2024
Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC

The Clarice Beckett touring exhibition features a collection of intimate works by one of Australia's most original artists on view for the first time

Prints & Drawings /  Video

Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others – Curatorial Introduction

Published 16 March 2023

Curator David Greenhalgh introduces the exhibition 'Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others'

Audio Tour Open Captioning
11 minutes
Touring Exhibition

Art Cases

two young girls are smiling and holding objects they have taken out of a large orange case

Our five Art Cases travel to schools, libraries, community centres, galleries and aged care homes to inspire creativity, inclusivity, and learning.

Exhibition

Being and Nothingness
Bea Maddock – Work from Three Decades

Past Exhibition
Woodcut print of a woman with a small picture of a man behind him

15 Feb – 10 May 1992

An exhibition bringing together Maddock's work from 1960 to the present.

Exhibition

My Head is a Map
A Decade of Australian Prints

Past Exhibition
Print of two women in a landscape

26 Sep 1992 – 10 Jan 1993

My Head is a Map is not an exhibition of 'printmaking now' but rather a survey of work produced over ten years.

Touring Exhibition

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists

On Tour
The interior of a bedroom with bookshelves, Window and Bed; painted in choppy strokes of yellow, green, blue and red

13 Sep – 17 Nov 2024
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD

The Know My Name: Australian Women Artists touring exhibition follows the National Gallery’s major two-part exhibition of Australian women artists.

Touring Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama
THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS

Past Exhibition
A small bright yellow room with black dots and a mirrored box in the middle

Art Gallery of South Australia
1 Apr 2022 – 13 Mar 2023

Artist Yayoi Kusama invites viewers to immerse themselves in her world to participate in an experience of both claustrophobic and infinite space.