Hana Assafiri is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist, author and social advocate. She paints, sculpts in woven wire, gives everyday objects new life through colour, and creates wearable art on silk. Her work is shaped by questions of belonging: what we inherit and what we release, how we love, and the freedom to be ourselves. Culture, gender and memory run through it. In 1998 she founded the Moroccan Soup Bar in Melbourne, a restaurant that has employed and supported women, and she speaks widely on women's rights and racism. She is the author of the memoir Hana: The Audacity to Be Free and the Moroccan Soup Bar cookbook. Her art invites you to take your time.