MAPh’s touring exhibition program engages regional and interstate audiences with curated photography exhibitions that highlight the strengths of the collection and showcase work by Australian artists. We currently have seven exhibitions that can be hosted by other museums and galleries, please click the links below for further information.
Venues considering hosting an exhibition can contact the museum with an expression of interest via:
03 8544 0500 or maphtouring@monash.vic.gov.au
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Murray Fredericks | The salt lake is a major survey exhibition that brings together Salt, Array, Vanity and the artist’s most recent series, Blaze.
Murray Fredericks (b. 1970) is an internationally acclaimed, award–winning artist and film maker that challenges the traditions of landscape photography. His works traverse time and place, utilising weather, reflection, perspective, light and darkness to transcend the literal matter of the subject itself.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
The Artist (self portrait)
ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive is a major survey exhibition that brings together bodies of work that span Zahalka’s practice and treasures from her archive that inform and inspire her. The exhibition encompasses material that is both personal and professional, intellectual and physical, and includes a recreation of the artist’s house-studio. Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the artist’s working life and creative process to explore her illusionary worlds.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
Ebenezer rock drop
Tamara Dean | Leave only footprints is the first survey exhibition of the critically acclaimed photomedia artist Tamara Dean, spanning over 11 key bodies of work that explore transitional moments in our lives – rites of passage, rituals and motherhood – and is underpinned by the artist’s longing and desire to be within and to protect nature. This immersive exhibition incorporates scent, photography, installation and the moving image to create an environment that engages the senses.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
Joy and friends
The Tucker portraits is a comprehensive and candid exploration of how Albert Tucker, one of Australia’s most well-known and renowned artists, used photography within his practice. Albert Tucker (1914–99) is a key exponent of Australian modernism and primarily a figurative painter who critically responded to the world around him. The Tucker portraits explores how Tucker used photography within his practice as inspiration and source material for his paintings, capturing unique and intimate documents that explore social, cultural and political life in Australia.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp commentary and spectacle across the visual art, performance and entertainment sectors. Their photography and performance art traverses the classifications of costume, film and recording.
The Huxleys were the recipients of the 2023 Wai Tang Commissioning Award and they responded with a new body of work that has all the hallmarks of the humour, wit and outrageousness we know and love them for. The Huxleys | Bad sports reflects upon the ostracisation you can feel when growing up in a country that values sporting achievement above all else. It can be a real struggle, especially for a creative, shy queer kid searching for kindred spirits. A love of music, art, fashion and the dark underworld is perceived to offer eventual artistic salvation.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
In 2018 curator and arts consultant Jane Scott approached the celebrated Melbourne artist Ponch Hawkes to embark on an epic project: photographing 500 Victorian women over the age of 50.
Across a dozen photoshoots, over 500 volunteer participants modelled nude in celebration of the diversity and reality of older women’s bodies. It became 500 strong. Hawkes staged her final photoshoot at MAPh in early June 2024. Across a weekend, women participated in the photoshoot with their personal props, sharing stories and finding connection. It is evident that the 500 strong project facilitates diverse conversations around women’s health, while exploring vulnerability and strength, courage and acceptance.
This exhibition presents all 500 portraits, celebrating the many contributions that have brought the project to its culmination.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
Petrina Hicks’s large-scale photographs draw from mythology, fables and art history to re-frame the contemporary female experience.
In Snakes and mirrors Hicks contemplates the self-awareness of animals, and our desire to understand the phenomenology of animal life from a human perspective. Underpinning this series is an exploration of animal consciousness and self-awareness: how do animals experience the universe?
Within Snakes and mirrors Hicks challenges the traditional human-centred vision of the world to emphasise the interconnectedness of humans and animals – serpents, birds, monkeys and human bind together, blurring the boundaries between the two in intimate vignettes that propose time in stasis.
MAPh is currently seeking expressions of interest.
