Welcome to the Flight Exhibition, a selection of artists’ mobiles celebrating Dagenham’s history of aviation and its transmigratory population. Eleven artists and eleven writers explore this multi-layered theme during March and April at the Pink Tardis Gallery, Heathway Shopping Centre, Dagenham.
Stare through the Pink Tardis window and marvel at these suspended sculptures, prototypes, and conceptual clouds. If you can't see the exhibition in person then don't worry, we'll be featuring all seventeen artworks here on the website. Every artwork has its very own dedicated writer, and we'll publish their responses here throughout March and April 2026.
We have Alison Stirling's neat folded sculpture in the Pink Tardis Gallery today. The folded paper grasps the disc as if hanging onto the world whilst its repeated phrase 'Flight' covers every plane and surface, a plea and a statement in multiple languages. This potent little sculpture is presented here on the Collect Connect website on the day after a massive coming together in London of hundreds of thousands of people, gathering rather than flying and offering welcome to those who are themselves having to take flight in an unstable world.
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| Alison Stirling |
Keziah Reddick provides us with today's words.
Small hands grasp at the world, iridescent and bronzed.
Birds fall from the sky and plummet with their weight.
High above, machines fly and fly, churning through the air,
choking
out thick trails of grit and gas.
Alison Stirling's work investigates the coexistence of nature and the built up environment; where urbanity encroaches on natures and vice versa in liminal or forgotten spaces. Her interest lies in subverting the genre of landscape painting as ‘scenic view’. She uses photography, collage and art historical references to reimagine landscape in its elemental form. Her paintings evoke a dreamlike quality of both trepidation and equanimity. Alison has exhibited her work internationally including: The Royal Academy of Arts Mall Galleries; Brunswick Art Gallery; Unit 1 Gallery, London. She is a featured Artist for Collective Arts Canada
https://www.alisonstirling.com/
Keziah Reddick is studying Fine Art and has a burgeoning interest in visual narratives and classical storytelling.
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