Touring Exhibitions

Andrew Snelgar, Ngemba people, installation view, 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2022, image courtesy the University of Queensland Art Museum © the artist, photographer: Marc Pricop

For over three decades, the national collection has been shared in communities across Australia and the world through dedicated touring exhibitions. Touring exhibitions share a diverse range of art and artistic perspectives. Featuring history’s best-known artists alongside leading contemporary artists, the touring exhibition program aims to demonstrate the breadth of artmaking in this country.

What's On

Touring Exhibition

Skywhales Across Australia

On Tour Upcoming

From Nov 2024
Free

Touring Exhibition

Enjoy This Trip: The Art of Music Posters

On Tour Upcoming

1 Nov 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre, SA
Free

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

Touring Exhibition

Rauschenberg & Johns
Significant Others

Print in black and navy on white backbround with the word BLUE in capital letters and the mirror image of it

1 Jun – 15 Sep 2024
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW

Touring Exhibition

Single Channel

On Tour

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

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

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Expressions of Interest

Expressions of interest are open to host a touring exhibition or works of art from the national collection.

For more information please contact our team touringexhibitions@nga.gov.au

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

Claude Monet, Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday], 1890, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/ Canberra, purchased 1979. Photos: Karlee Holland

Stories & Ideas

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

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
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
In Conversation

The red thread of history

Two women sit on a timber bench, within a gallery space, surrounded by paintings and work of art suspended from the ceiling and walls

Artists Judy Watson, Waanyi people, and Helen Johnson have forged a dialogue on the roles of women in contemporary and colonial Australia.

Read Time: 20 minutes
Feature

Buy the Whole Damn Thing: The Tyler Collection

Man in an art workshop using a large paint roller to press paint ink on stone

78 artists, 7400+ works of art and 120,000 archive photographs. Curator David Greenhalgh shares how the collection came to call the Gallery home.

Read Time: 19 minutes

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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
Collection

Art Across Australia

hot air balloon sculptures flying over The Grampians mountain range

The national collection is for all Australians and is shared in communities across Australia and the world through touring exhibitions.

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

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
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

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.