Descriptions of the ten successful projects funded under Round 22 of the Visions of Australia program. (All amounts are expressed as GST exclusive.)

ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)—Play School: Come and Play!

$247,400 Touring funding

After 60 years, the iconic TV series Play School is throwing open its doors and inviting us inside to share in the magic of making a Play School episode. Developed in partnership with the ABC, the immersive Play School: Come and Play! exhibition will celebrate learning through play with music, interactive games, creating and storytelling.

Touring to ten venues in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

Artback NT Incorporated—Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling

$114,159 Development funding

Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling will be the first exhibition to capture the legacy, impact, and energy of the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir. To be developed by Artback NT Incorporated in partnership with Tangentyere Artists and Hermannsburg Potters, the exhibition will examine the choir's influences, inspirations, evolutions and compelling stories and champion First Nations leadership and cultural integrity.

This project is to develop the exhibition to tour to seven venues in the ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria.

Canberra Museum and Gallery—Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars

$119,742 Touring funding

The Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars touring exhibition will feature original material from the ACT's Mount Stromlo Observatory and a sky story led by First Nations artists, knowledge holders and an astrophysicist. It will also include a bespoke space junk video game and a learning program for primary school children in years 5-6, along with engaging interactive elements.

Touring to three venues in Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania.

Contemporary Art Tasmania—Apologue Isle

$198,842 Touring funding

The Apologue Isle touring exhibition is a project by Tasmanian artist and producer Andy Hutson in collaboration with 33 artists and contributors. It will combine kinetic sculpture and storytelling to address fractured relationships between people and nature, sharing the creativity of Tasmanian artists and giving a tangible voice to the land of lutruwita / Tasmania.

Touring to three venues in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia.

JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design—Of Love and Loss

$19,500 Development Funding

The touring exhibition Of Love and Loss will feature new works by 10 contemporary Australian artists inspired by the symbolism, ritual practices and emotional intimacy of Victorian mourning jewellery and objects. The exhibition will explore grief and mourning and invite audiences to reflect on personal tragedies and recent events in Australia and across the world, including mass tragedy, global conflict, and ecological disasters.

This project is to develop the exhibition to tour to six venues in the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

Museum of Australian Photography—The World Came Flooding In

$138,644 Touring Funding

The World Came Flooding In will be an immersive installation centred on stories of life during natural disasters. Through virtual and augmented reality, projections, miniatures, photographs, and sound, the exhibition will explore the impacts of climate change and the rich inner world that remains when things and places are washed away.

Touring to ten venues in the ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

Museums of History NSW—Mardi Gras: 50 Years of Pride

$254,073 Development funding

This project will draw on the archives of the First Mardi Gras 78ers to trace five decades of the Sydney Mardi Gras, from protest and activism to celebration and cultural transformation. Through objects, photographs and personal stories, the exhibition will explore the events of 1978, the experiences of early participants, the evolution of the festival, and the broader history and lasting impact of LGBTQIA+ activism in Australia.

This project is to develop an exhibition for national tour.

National Gallery of Australia—Richard Lewer: Steve

$165,921 Touring funding

Richard Lewer: Steve will be a touring exhibition that explores a family coming to terms with a dementia diagnosis. Through an interplay of animation and painting, the artist Richard Lewer will reflect on memory as fragile, complex and deeply human. The exhibition includes hands-on workshops in animation and storytelling, curator-led discussions, and a two-day Art and Dementia professional development workshops.

Touring to seven venues in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.

Second Echo Ensemble—The STARE

$47,993 Development funding

This project will support the design of a disability-led national tour of The STARE exhibition by the Tasmania-based arts organisation Second Echo Ensemble. The exhibition features portraits, video, installation works that place Second Echo Ensemble artists in direct conversation with the viewer to unsettle assumptions about visibility, authorship and who is permitted to occupy space within contemporary art.

This project is to develop the exhibition to tour to venues in ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

Tamworth Regional Council—Nature Machine: 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial

$121,128 Touring funding

The Nature Machine touring exhibition will bring together leading and emerging textile artists who explore the relationship between hand, body and machine. The exhibition celebrates the diverse ways artists are responding to urgent environmental concerns, protecting traditions, revaluing craft knowledge, and proposing new ways of living with, and making from, the world around us.

Touring to ten venues in the ACT, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria.