Monira Al Qadiri’s (@moniraism) new public sculpture, DEVONIAN, installed on the Riverside Terrace of the Southbank Centre in London, is a large, circular work composed of thin, semi-transparent images of ancient sea creatures on a solid base of ocean blue. 📅 5 AUGUST - 6 NOVEMBER 📍 RIVERSIDE TERRACE LEVEL 2 LONDON The work’s title refers to the classification of a period of life and rock formation that occurred nearly 400 million years ago. The significance of the Devonian era for the artist is both its specificity to nearby Devon, England – for which the period is named – and the fact that the deposits of the animals that once populated the oceans in the Devonian are today used in petroleum production, creating both plastic and fuel by-products. DEVONIAN is the second of three annual commissions presented by the Hayward Gallery in partnership with the Bagri Foundation to bring new public art commissions by artists from or inspired by Asia and its diaspora to the Southbank Centre. Supported by @bagrifoundation © Images Rob Harris #königgalerie #moniraalqadiri