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Fiona hall:
Fly Away home
My children (aged 4 and 6) wanted to come
back again and again to Fiona Hall’s ‘Fly Away
Home’. They loved creating their birds and nests,
and the idea of making up the details of your
own bird species (like name and habitat) was
very interesting.
Visitor comment
For ‘Contemporary Australia:
Women’, the Gallery presented Fiona
Hall’s interactive art project ‘Fly
Away Home’ especially for children
and their families. Connecting the
artist’s interest in migratory birds
and contemporary issues of human
migration, visitors were invited to
invent a new species of bird for which
they could also make a nest.
‘Fly Away Home’ featured banknote
wallpaper; towering tree forms, that
created a canopy in the space; and the
moving-image work
video wallpaper
for a rainy afternoon
2008–10 created
by the artist especially for the
exhibition.
This project is the fourth in a series
of Children’s Art Centre commissioned
projects by contemporary Australian
artists.
Fly away home
was first
commissioned by the Children’s Art
Centre for ‘21st Century: Art in the
First Decade’ (2010), supported by
the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
7 APRIl – 7 OCTObER 2012
ChIlDREN’S ART CENTRE GOmA
ATTENDANCE
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Installation view (above) and detail
(right) of the Children’s Art Centre
project ‘Fly Away Home’ 2012 by Fiona
Hall, ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’,
Gallery of Modern Art, April 2012
