Alban Low (with Jack Low) - Flight exhibition

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.

More than the sum of its parts, an expression that could describe the Flight exhibition itself. After all the Pink Tardis contains all these artworks, created in isolation in artists' studios across the globe, but here they come together as a flock of brilliant ideas that capture the imagination. Today's artwork by Alban Low is a Frankenstein creation, coming alive with a nuts and bolts moan. The words below are from Jack Low, they come from the heart, just one part that makes a person.

i am made up of shopping lists,
thank you notes,
threadbare sleeves in knitted jumpers,
tool kits full of spare nails,
hand me downs,
the pain of having nothing to show for it,
scraps of christmas wrapping paper,
plastic waterbottles,
odd socks paired together,
washed up takeaway tubs,
my mothers eyes but not her smile,
boxes that live on top of the wardrobe,
memories of being a little girl,
the scars that cut across my chest,
round gold glasses that haven’t been worn,
sunday meetings,
coffee orders,
guilt that sits with me in the morning before anyone has woken up,
the phone calls i’ve missed,
books borrowed off my sister that sit on my shelf,
empty filter and paper packets,
refolded laundry,
haircuts on the bathroom floor,
handwritten recipes,

i am made up of the sins committed against me,
unfinished loyalty cards,
anger that i couldn’t feel without questioning my faith,
rewatched movies,
keyrings from cities i haven’t seen,
freefalls from fig trees,
fridge magnets,
early mornings swimming in the sea,
broken sobriety,
tshirts i won’t grow into,
tattoos of childhood cartoons,
i am masculinity that was born with a fear of itself,
i am regretful and i am grateful

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Alban Low is an artist and illustrator, working in a signature graphic style for album covers and specialising in impromptu portraits of jazz musicians. Alban is a founder member of the Artists' collective  Collect Connect and is a tireless creative force in realising the many exhibitions that the collective host.
http://albanlow.com/

Jack Low is a Brighton based writer who often finds inspiration from the community around him.