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Hayward Touring is dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through imaginative, high quality exhibitions that attract and engage a wide public. Each year, up to 20 shows are seen by approximately half a million people in almost 100 venues. Exhibitions range in scale from the British Art Show, an ambitious multi-media survey of recent work presented every five years in different cities, to small graphics shows that tour to galleries, arts centres, schools and colleges in virtually every town in the country.

The past decade has seen a revolution in the quality of spaces and the level of curatorial ambition in galleries and museums across Britain. Yet touring remains essential to the exhibition economy, both nationally and internationally. Acting as a laboratory of ideas and nurturing new curatorial approaches, Hayward Touring exhibitions feature a thought-provoking mix of subjects and artists that can complement and support other aspects of galleries’ programmes, and help to develop new audiences.

Collaborating with a wide range of innovative and scholarly curators, Hayward Touring provides the opportunity to experience new developments in international contemporary art, and to understand them in relation to other cultural trends and issues. In this way, Hayward Touring enables younger as well as more established artists from the UK and abroad to have their work seen widely in a critical context. We aim to work closely with participating venues from an early stage in the development of exhibitions to maximise the impact of each showing. We welcome ideas for future projects.

Hayward Touring is funded by Arts Council England and our hire fees are subsidised to ensure that exhibitions are affordable to as many galleries as possible. Fees include two-way transport (for major shows, this is by our own vans), indemnity, exhibition graphics and interpretation resources. Audio-visual equipment is usually supplied, and for most larger-scale shows, Hayward driver-technicians are available to help with installations.

Southbank Centre's Press and Marketing departments provide support and advice, and the newly formed Learning and Participation team aims to work closely with colleagues to create imaginative models for engagement. Catalogues accompany most major exhibitions, enhancing their educational impact by placing the work in art-historical, socio-economic or philosophical contexts.

Roger Malbert
Senior Curator, Hayward Touring

Image credits:

Top image: Joachim Koester and Adrian Dannatt, The PAN Museum, 2006. Installation view, Hatton Gallery, Manchester, A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment. Text © Adam Dannatt 1999. Image © Joachim Koester 1999.

Middle image: Mike Nelson, AMNESIAC SHRINE or Monumental Skulpture to Publyck Mourning, 2006. Installation view, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 2007. A Hayward Gallery/Hatton Gallery commission for the touring exhibition, A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment. Image © The artist and The Whitworth Gallery.

Bottom image: Hew Locke, (from L-R) El Dorado (2005), Black Queen (2004), installation view, Nottingham Castle, British Art Show 6, 2006.