Tracey Emin’s new permanent public sculpture for the city of Sydney opened on Wednesday 21 March.
The work features 68 bronze birds perched on walls, over doorways, above traffic lights and ledges along Bridge Street, Grosvenor Street, and in Macquarie Place Park. The sculpture responds to Australia’s distance from other parts of the world. Macquarie Park is also the site of the Obelisk of Distances, built in 1818, one of Australia’s oldest public monuments.