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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.
Today is Mother's Day here in the UK, the perfect day to celebrate the arrival of new creative work into the world. We welcome long time collaborator and Collect Connect exhibitor Stella Tripp, here is the first of two beautiful new works she has made for the Flight exhibition. Ringlets drip down from an empty caul, a cloudburst whose shape and form suggest new meanings every time it turns in the sky.
Our writer today is Katerina Koulouri, read her response below.
your paperwhites keep gliding across
if I were to die one day
this view would be a comfort
the first memory of a newborn
trying to make sense of the sudden light
fragility is spelled with a p
for porcelain for porous
this ceiling now observed
upside-down
with feet hanging as if grasping for air
the soft kind, transparent and light
this ceiling could only be white
your paperwhites, flying shadows
hand in hand with beautiful
weeds
born from wounds
cloud spells and irises
hanging in the air
invisible and alive
a crib mobile and a skull
remind me I was missing you
could it be that one of my first glimpses
was what you saw last?
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Born in Taunton, Somerset, Stella Tripp travelled to her current home in Devon, a very long way round. After a few years in Israel, Stella returned to Taunton to do a foundation course; then on to Portsmouth (BA Hons Fine Art); a few years in London; three in the USA (MA Fine Art; MFA) and a year in Cornwall, before settling in Exeter. Stella works in a wide variety of media, crossing boundaries between drawing, painting and sculpture.
www.stellatripp.co.uk
Katerina Koulouri is a poet and translator from Athens, Greece. She lived in France for 5 years where she studied Oenology and Modern French Literature, and is an MA graduate in Creative Writing (poetry) from Kingston University, London. Poetry, wine and childrens’ books are her passions. She published her debut pamphlet, INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE in 2023.
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