Touring exhibitions
M&G QLD manages a high-quality touring exhibitions program to provide access to contemporary visual arts practice for regional and metropolitan communities.
The program showcases the work of Queensland, Australian and international artists.
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artists showcased through our 2023 touring program.
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On the road
How Soon is Now?
Brings together a selection of Bruce Reynolds’ exquisite cast relief works with two-dimensional collaged linoleum works.
Find out moreLost in Palm Springs
A multidisciplinary exhibition bringing together fourteen creative minds—artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia—who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of the desert city of Palm Springs, California.
Find out moreThree Echoes – Western Desert Art
Showcasing a stunning collection of Australian Aboriginal art spanning the first 30 years of the Western Desert art movement, with works from 57 artists, curated by Djon Mundine OAM FAHA.
Find out moreZOONOSES
Through drawing and lithography, Nicola Hooper uses fairy-tale iconology and rhymes to explore concepts surrounding zoonoses.
Find out moreThe Interior
Can we use the talking cure to solve society’s ‘problem’ with women? Natalya Hughes’s The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room playfully furnished for psychoanalysis.
Find out morePOSTWORLD
Features Australian artists who create parallel universes. Audiences are invited into the playful, sublime, poetic and cautionary in this exhibition. Drawing on the detritus of human experience, these worlds have their own internal languages existing in alternate time and space.
Find out moreThe Brothers Gruchy
An engaging new media exhibition that features artworks from Tim and Mic Gruchy’s practice that focus on recurring themes of human perception, artificial intelligence, synaesthesia, memory and cultural identity.
Find out moreBilly Missi’n Wakain Thamai
A profound exhibition honouring the late Torres Strait Islander artist Billy Missi (1970-2012).
Find out moreArtist videos
Three Echoes – Western Desert Art
Curator Djon Mundine, Marina Strocchi, and Collectors Andrew Arnott and Karin Schack n conversation
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National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS)
M&G QLD is the Queensland agency for the National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS). NETS Australia is a website that features an online directory of available touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions on the road.
Book an exhibition, submit your own tour-ready exhibition, or see what exhibitions are currently touring.
Submit a touring exhibition
Museums & Galleries QLD is delighted to announce that we will be accepting EOIs for our Exhibition Development & Touring Program on 1 March 2025.
Proposals will close on 30 May 2025.
Please direct all enquires to the Exhibitions Coordinator, Andrea Higgins [email protected]
Skills development training
M&G QLD provides skills development workshops in areas such as exhibition installation and handling, education and public programming, curatorship, lighting, exhibition development, exhibition interpretation and audience development.
Previously touring
Paint the Town
An initiative of Flying Arts Alliance touring the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards.
Find out morePattern & Print: Easton Pearson Archive
A celebration of the internationally acclaimed fashion house Easton Pearson.
Find out moreReasonable & Necessary
Artel, the creative studio of CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, located in Redcliffe, south-east Queensland, provided the necessary tools, space and instruction to support its Artists to creatively express themselves as a dynamic artistic movement.
Find out morelong water: fibre stories
Illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices.
Find out moreArtistic Endeavour
Marks the 250th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour‘s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “… curious plants [they] met with on shore”.
Find out moreLegacy: Reflections on Mabo
Celebrates the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo.
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