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Clay medallions

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
London
2023

Maymana Arefin was commissioned alongside artists Shepherd Manyika and Eliza Collin to design the first ever Relaxed Hours Studio, a space to play, create and reflect at the Hayward Gallery alongside one of their most popular exhibitions. Inspired by the Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis exhibition and in response to themes of nature-kinship and care, Maymana developed a session prioritising access and deep rest in Southbank Centre’s rooftop garden. 

Maymana guided participants to meditate upon their own relationship with the natural world and to create a physical memento to capture this. Through imprint, mark-making and embedding plants and seed pods into clay, disabled participants, families, carers and young people made medallions, wrote poems and molded sculptures to represent this.

To find out more about Relaxed Hours at the Southbank Centre and Maymana Arefin’s involvement in this project, please see the video below. 




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