Threads
Bringing together a diverse range of contemporary textiles from the Gallery’s Australian, Asian and Pacific Collections, ‘Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric’ celebrates the ways in which contemporary artists explore and extend the textile medium. Threads transformed through knitting, weaving, looping and stitching are the most flexible of materials. Often carrying significant personal and cultural narratives, they move across temporal and spatial boundaries, connecting old and new ideas, just as they provide important links between people, places and ways of life.

On now until Sunday 5 February 2012
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
Stanley Place South Bank, QLD
qag.qld.gov.au

As Modern As Tomorrow
Showcasing Melbourne’s leading commercial photographers during the 1950s and 60s, including Maggie Diaz, Norman Ikin, Helmut Newton, Athol Shmith, Wolfgang Sievers, Mark Strizic, Dacre Stubbs and Henry Talbot. These exceptionally talented individuals were active in commercial fields as varied as fashion, advertising, architectural and industrial photography, for clients including Robin Boyd, the Australian Wool Board, Shell and Kodak.

On now until Sunday 5 February 2012
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street Melbourne, VIC
slv.vic.gov.au/modern

What's in a face?
What’s in a face? aspects of portrait photography is an exhibition of more than 45 photographs from the Art Gallery of NSW collection. It focuses on some of the crucial points in the history of photographic depictions of the human face, ranging from studio portraiture in the late 19th century to contemporary practices today. Works by Australian photographers, such as Paul Foelsche, Olive Cotton, Max Dupain and others, are placed in an international context, represented by Man Ray, Edward Weston, YAMAWAKI Iwao, Nan Goldin, Ben Cauchi and Loretta Lux.

On now until Sunday 5 February 2012
Art Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, NSW
artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Dinosaur Designs
Australia’s Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs have been commissioned to produce a new body of work for GoMA’s fifth anniversary. It will be one of their largest and most dazzling projects to date, consisting of a number of large platters that will be displayed in the Foyer Cabinet, GoMA. Dinosaur Designs is renowned for their distinctive resin jewellery and home wares, which evoke the colours and forms of the Australian landscape. They are recognised as one of the country’s most successful design companies, with their own stores here and abroad, and as a thriving international exporter.

On now until Sunday 25 March 2012
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
Stanley Place South Bank, QLD
qag.qld.gov.au