Conceived and organised by Alexander Caminada, Angela Findlay, and Kel Portman, Dialogues with the Severn is a weekend celebration of the River Severn. The mini festival takes place in Stroud’s unique Chapels of Rest and at Arlingham by the river. Artists, writers, musicians, poets, walkers, and river-lovers come together to listen, create, reflect and connect with each other and with the Severn.
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19 September, 2026, Glocestershire
Making Landfall unfolds at the threshold where distance dissolves and the once‑imagined becomes tangibly present. It explores the charged moment of arrival—when ideas, bodies, and memories cross unseen currents to touch a new shore. In this space, landfall is not only a geographical event but an intimate encounter: a meeting of forces that can be both tender and tumultuous.
The exhibition Making Landfall (4th-8th March 2026) traces these crossings as slow, shape-shifting processes. The produced artworks drift like tides carrying fragments of past worlds, reshaping the contours of what they encounter. Landfall becomes an act of translation: between sea and soil, between origin and becoming, between what we carry and what we must let go.
By attending to these arrivals—quiet or thunderous, deliberate or accidental—Making Landfall invites viewers to reflect on how landscapes, identities, and histories are continually unsettled and remade. Each piece stands as a marker of transition, revealing the emotional and material imprints that form when new worlds meet and begin their patient, transformative work.
Making Landfall includes new work by the artist Mark Mawer, print and a collaborative book produced by the artist Andrew Morrison and writing and photography by the poet Maria Stadnicka.
@ Maria Stadnicka, January 2026
RE VENI RE is a limited edition artist book written by the poet and sociologist Maria Stadnicka and produced by the book artist Andrew Morrison, and it reflects the migration journey of Romanian diaspora settled in Britain. “Revenire” [trans. from Romanian] means “returning” and it contains texts based on interviews conducted by Maria with Romanian migrants for her PhD research into transgenerational trauma transmission. Each text has the same number of lines and they build a lyrical interpretation of stories enfolded by uprooting. Although each story is different, together they shape the commonality of a diasporic culture that is making its voice heard in the British space.
RE VENI RE is letterpress printed and published by Kerbstone Press, on the occasion of the Enfolded Journeys exhibition. The project Enfolded Journeys is a touring exhibition relating to travel, displacement, geographies and borders, and migration in recent times and in the past as the effects of such movements of peoples, whether compelled or voluntary, may resound through the generations.
RE VENI RE will be displayed in various art galleries across England, Scotland and Italy, starting with the Leeds Central Library (21 March – 5 April, 2025) and ending with Venice in 2026.
© Maria Stadnicka, February 2025
At the beginning of a new project: ideas, words, paper, ink, string.
© MStadnicka, January 2025
A few months ago I had in mind to create a calendar with landscape photographs I’ve taken throughout 2024 but my work schedule made it impossible to see the project come to light. It would be too late to do it now in time for 2025 but here is the selection I had in mind. Feel free to add your own photograph and send it in return instead of a Christmas or a New Year card. Maybe a photograph that represents your 2024 or your hope for 2025.
Have a Happy Winter Season! La Multi Ani!
Maria Stadnicka
© Maria Stadnicka, 2024
The first copy of 4 Megahertz. Awake. A limited edition artist book included in the Art, Science and Creativity Art Book Exhibition at the Liverpool Central Library. The book was designed and created with the artist Andrew Morrison and published by the Kerbstone Press.
The exhibition will be open between 3rd September – 30th October 2024.
© Maria Stadnicka, August 2024.
© Maria Stadnicka, August 2024
Decide that the earliest memory is
a feeling. Someone passed it onto us
by accident. It still matters.
disOrder is a new project in collaboration with Andrew Morrison Books and produced by Kerbstone Press. It is an artist book in a box, and it is coming out at the Bristol Artist’s Book Event (B.A.B.E.) this weekend. The event will take place at the Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, 29-30 June, 11am – 5pm. The event is free and there will be hundreds of other books to see if you are in the neighbourhood. You can find more information here.
© Maria Stadnicka, June 2024.
Maria Stadnicka 