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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On the road
POSTWORLD
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 moreShifting Ground
A celebratory exhibition that explores how clay, as both material and metaphor, can carry stories across time, connecting past makers with present-day artists.
Find out moreAfghanistan
A profoundly moving and compelling photographic exhibition by award-winning photojournalist and author Andrew Quilty. Living in Kabul for almost a decade, from 2013 to 2022, Quilty’s powerful images capture the complex tapestry of daily life throughout the country.
Find out moreVeiled Histories: Works by leading First Nations artists, Jennifer Herd (MBarbarum) and Joanne Currie Nalingu (Gungurri)
Veiled Histories is an extraordinarily powerful and visually beautiful collection of works layered with truths both hard and shared, and a testament to the shift in the contemporary commentary within First Nations art.
Find out moreTouring Exhibition Resources
Click the link below for a page containing a collated list of resources from M&G QLD Touring Exhibitions, including catalogues, audio essays, artist videos, and curriculum-linked education resources
Artist videos
Afghanistan
Photojournalist Andrew Quilty discusses the Afghanistan national touring exhibition with curator Ellie Waterhouse.
WatchShifting Ground
Curator and artist, Larissa Warren, speaks about the Shifting Ground touring exhibition.
WatchThe Brothers Gruchy
Tim and Mic Gruchy discuss their works in ‘The Brothers Gruchy’ national touring exhibition
WatchThree 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
EOIs for our Exhibition Development & Touring Program are currently closed.
Please direct all enquires to the Exhibitions Coordinator, Andrea Higgins at [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
The 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 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 moreHow Soon is Now?
Brings together a selection of Bruce Reynolds’ exquisite cast relief works with two-dimensional collaged linoleum works.
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 morePaint the Town
An initiative of Flying Arts Alliance touring the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards.
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