Stroud

Forthcoming: ‘Domestication’

Forthcoming ‘Domestication’: film collaboration with the book artist and printer Andrew Morrison for Arnolfini Bristol.

© Maria Stadnicka, September 2021.

The exhibition TU:PLEI for one more day / 25 July

  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Zoé Heath, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: Zoé Heath, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman ‘As You Like It’, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © CF Sherrat, 2021 and John Stadnicki
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Zoé Heath, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Our well-loved visitor, Forest, trying to keep cool at lunchtime.
  • © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • © Maria Stadnicka, ‘Buried Gods Metal Prophets’, published by Guillemot Press, 2021
  • © Hannah Mathison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021

TU:PLEI, 20-25 July

  • Maria Stadnicka Buried Gods Metal Prophets (Guillemot Press, 2021)
  • © Antonia Glücksman As you Like It, wooden art game
  • © Hannah Mathison, 2021
  • © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • © Zoé Heath, 2021
  • © John Stadnicki, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021

The exhibition TU : PLEI will be open 20-25 July 2021 at Stroud Brewery, 9am-5pm.

© Maria Stadnicka, 22nd July 2021

Midlands in Lockdown / Week #10 / At Eye Level

Photography © John Stadnicki, May 2020

Midlands / Lockdown in Britain / Week #6

Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020
Photo: © John Stadnicki 2020

 

Photography © John Stadnicki, May 2020

Gallery

Midlands / Lockdown Week #2

Gloucester, UK / April 2020
Gloucester, UK / April 2020
Gloucester, UK / April 2020
Gloucester, UK / April 2020
Gloucester, UK / April 2020
Gloucester, UK / April 2020

Photography: © John Stadnicki, April 2020, Gloucestershire, Midlands, United Kingdom.

Somnia launch in Stroud / 5th December 8pm / Museum in the Park

SOMNIA Knives, Forks, Spoons Press / Sep. 2019

About SOMNIA:

Writer Ian Seed (author of New York Hotel, a TSL Book of the Year) wrote: ‘one of the best books of poetry I’ve read this year is Maria Stadnicka’s extraordinarily vivid collection, Somnia.’

‘Stadnicka’s poetics is one of craftmanship, wherein she carefully walks the tightrope of surreal poetic metaphor and the gritty realism of investigative journalism and broadcasting.’ (Briony Hughes, writer and critic, Stride Magazine, October 2019)

‘Somnia is consistently alluring and enigmatic in its poetic voice. What compels it’s Stadnicka’s calm creativity in conveying the horrors and/or abstractions of these – her poetic voice completely comfortable in its suggestiveness: inventive, provoking, highly visual.’ (Mike Ferguson, writer and critic, International Times, September 2019)

Somnia will be launched on 5th December 2019, 8pm. Free entry.

Publisher: Knives, Forks and Spoons Press.

Editor: Alec Newman

Cover artwork: Mark Mawer

 

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The SHIFT Project: Art Transforms / 12th-18th October 2019

 

It started with one drawing, followed by an art installation, then an art exhibition.

Created by the young artist Robin Watkins-Davis, The SHIFT Project: Art Transforms is now setting the scene for outreach projects, participatory workshops based on contemporary art, well-being, music, dance and poetry.

The project is focused on creating community collaborations, bringing together art and movement, to support well-being and to improve mental health.

The SHIFT Project takes place 12-18th October 2019 | St Laurence Church, Stroud, GL5 1AP. The full programme is available here. Click here to find out more about it, to support the students, artists and to get involved.

I am delighted to support The SHIFT Project: Art Transforms. My performance inspired by the SHIFT art installation will take place on Sunday, 13thOctober at 5.30pm, at St Laurence Church. It includes texts from latest collection SOMNIA, published by The Knives Forks Spoons Press.

The SHIFT Project: Art Transforms brings together 17 local organisations and charities and 37 artists. You can make a difference and support the project here. Thank you and look forward to seeing you @SHIFT.

The SHIFT Project is also supported by: SGS College, Create Gloucestershire, Strike a Light, VRC Publishing and Curating, CORE Lighting, Barnwood Trust, Diocese of Gloucester, Stroud Sacred Music Festival, Arts Award, School of Larks, ACP, Stroud Visual Arts (SVA), Bliss by Robin, Stroud Yoga Space, Look Again, Fair Shares, Gloucester Gateway Trust & All Pulling Together.

Maria Stadnicka, 2019

Gallery

Lewis & Hole, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1993

A bit of local history. Lewis & Hole started melting iron in 1946, immediately after the Second World War. Many people from Stroud remember the building, which used to be the centre of Dudbridge area of Stroud.

This is a set of images taken by photographer John Stadnicki in 1993, a few years before the foundry was closed down, following redevelopments in the late 1990s. Although the work conditions were as close to Dante’s Inferno as you can imagine, people were proud of their contribution to the local industry.

Photography: © John Stadnicki, 1993.

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