As part of ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’, GOMA presents ‘Fly Away Home’, a large-scale art work for children and families by leading Australian artist Fiona Hall, developed in collaboration with the Children’s Art Centre.

‘Fly Away Home’ opens up young imaginations to the wonders of the world inhabited by both humans and birds, while also introducing important issues of our time – human migration and the need to protect the environment. Fiona Hall invites children to explore these ideas from a bird’s perspective as they make a bird and nest using paper money she has especially developed for ‘Fly Away Home’.

For this art work, Fiona created the nests out of actual money to suggest that people’s interest in making money as a way of improving their lifestyle can negatively impact – even destroy – natural habitats.