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
Maria Stadnicka 