Expressions of Interest
Claude Monet, Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday], 1890, installation view, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, 2023, as part of the National Gallery of Australia's Sharing the National Collection Initiative. Picture by Luke Marsden/ Tweed Regional Gallery.
Galleries across Australia are invited to apply to host a piece of the national collection or a touring exhibition at their venue.
Applications for touring exhibitions are open from 20 September to 15 November 2024.
Expressions of interest for Sharing the National Collection are open until late 2026.
On tour
The National Gallery is currently presenting touring exhibitions across Australia. If you are interested in hosting one of these exhibitions, please apply now by 15 November 2024.
Clarice Beckett, Sandringham Beach, (detail) c 1933, oil on canvas, 55.8 x 50.9 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1971
CLARICE BECKETT: PAINTINGS FROM THE NATIONAL COLLECTION
Clarice Beckett painted the life and scenery of her coastal home in south-east Naarm/ Melbourne. Her work captures a world on the cusp of modernisation, evoking both the natural environment and simple pleasures of suburbia. An intimate, rarely seen collection by one of the most original artists of the early twentieth century Australia.
ENJOY THIS TRIP: THE ART OF MUSIC POSTERS
Drawn from the National Gallery’s impressive collection of Australian and international music posters spanning the 1960s to 1980s, Enjoy This Trip: The Art of Music Posters captures the spirit of the times and an era of experimentation.
SINGLE CHANNEL
Single Channel brings together moving image artworks by some of Australia's most significant artists. Explore themes of identity presented in powerful, unexpected and mesmerising ways. Includes work by Tony Albert, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser collaboration, Silvana and Gabriella Mangano, Club Até, Shaun Gladwell and Tracey Moffatt.
SKYWHALES ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhale and Skywhalepapa take their family on another tour of Australia. In the form of two monumental hot air balloons, the skywhale family represent nature, family, evolution, care and wonder.
OF THIS EARTH
Transforming Culture and Country through First Nations ceramics, this exhibition will highlight cultural expression and contemporary cultural continuity through works drawn from the national collection.
In Development
The National Gallery has several ideas in the works for touring exhibition projects. If you are interested in hearing more about any of these exhibitions or would consider holding one of these exhibitions at your venue, please register your interest in the following exhibition ideas. Open until late 2026.
5TH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL: AFTER THE RAIN
Featuring First Nations artists from across Australia and presenting new immersive projects that resonate with the idea of rebirth and cycles of cleansing. Led by Artistic Director, Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples, the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial will celebrate inter-generational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future.
GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH
Grace Cossington Smith presents insights into the art and working methods of one of Australia’s most significant and beloved modernists. Through a focussed selection of sketchbooks and paintings accompanied by an array of sketchbooks, this exhibition reveals Cossington Smith’s keen abilities as a draughtswoman as well as her experimentations with colour across a wide range of subjects: from her deep connections with nature to her home environment and the modern metropolis.
RICHARD LEWER: STEVE
Richard Lewer’s Steve is a gentle exploration of the complexity of a family coming to terms with a dementia diagnosis. Through animation and a suite of paintings on domestic Laminex tabletops, this exhibition tells the story of man named Steve presented from the perspective of his family as they cope with the effects of his illness.
Sharing the National Collection
Director Dr Nick Mitzevich with Minister the Hon Tony Burke with Andy Warhol, Elvis 1963, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Copyright Agency, 2023 © Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc.
Regional and suburban venues can also request works of art from the national collection for their communities on long term loans. Express your interest now through the Sharing the National Collection initiative.
