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.
The final artwork in a fine flock of flight exhibits comes from Melanie Honebone. Although firmly ensconced in the artistic hotbed of Swansea (Wales), Melanie's artwork travels to galleries and exhibitions all over the world. Coming next on the Honebone World Art Tour will be exhibitions in Rochester (USA) and Aabenraa (Denmark). Today's writing comes from one of life's great travellers, Katerina Koulouri, the Greek poet whose words carry us on the wind.......
heading east
heading east
in what feels like static
silence
in circles in abandonment
east often seems to be the wrong way
a byway a byway
is still a way
east often seams the back with the now
paper cranes
I carry a few
in pockets
some in bags
inside books
they keep an eye on flying words
crushed
where each east is to be
found
wings
wings voids
with their curves and their lines
wings carriages
for the hows and the whys
become sieves
allowing the wise
dust to enter
in volumes and whirls
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Melanie Honebone is a Wales-based fine artist. She often works in series, providing visual responses to external stimuli such as literature, science, and music. Melanie openly describes herself as a ‘renegade arts experimentalist’ and is happy dabbling in anything that pushes her work to the limit and broadens her own potential. In her spare time she produces music videos and photography for Stone Letter Media, is attempting to learn Welsh, and likes to stroke cats.
https://melaniehonebone.wordpress.com/
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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