Maria Stella Lydaki

Maria Stella is a London-based multidisciplinary artist (b.1996) of Greek origin. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, in the ‘Jewellery Linking Bodies’ department (2022). Her practice spans sculpture, performance, photography, video installation, and writing. She explores the ancient ritual of lamentation through a contemporary lens—examining language as material, the dialogue between inner and outer worlds, the tension between light and dark, and the politics of gentleness. Her research weaves through cultural and ecological preservation, the anima mundi (world soul), and the symbolic power of fairytales.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at London Craft Week in 2025 & 2023 (London, UK), St Augustine's Tower Hackney, 2024 (London, UK), Munich Jewellery Week in 2023 (Munich, Germany), OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival, 2023 & 2019 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Fashion For Good, 2023 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Cluster Photography & Print Fair, 2022 (Oxo Tower, London, UK), and Huygens' Hofwijck, 2022 (Voorburg, Netherlands).