Stella Tripp (with Dom O'Reilly) - 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.

The delicate ecological Chinook of Stella Tripp floats into the Flight exhibition in Dagenham today. Many of the artworks in the exhibition have been carefully balanced and weighted, hanging elegantly without tipping over. Stella's sculpture talks of Nature's beautiful balance, a celebration of different species who share the flight paths above our heads. Dom O'Reilly, champion of the underdog, gives a gentle lift to one of those creature, the humble Bumblebee. Read his response below.......

Looking at the owl on this installation I wonder what happened to the bumblebee.

Dragons, owls, lions, elephants and honey bees are commonplace in mythology and folklore around the world. Top-dollar creatures who obscure the truly wonderful.

No one can explain how bumblebees can fly given their aerodynamics. They can sting multiple types but rarely do so. They live in small colonies. Miraculous, gentle and self-sufficient are qualities worthy of a place in legend.

Perhaps they have a branding problem. Their name ‘bumble’ gives the impression of a well-meaning, likeable but clumsy and chaotic type. Maybe that’s why I identify with them.

Here’s my attempt to give them their deserved spot in folklore through an alternative version of the Ants and the Grasshopper.

In the original, the grasshopper lazed around playing music all summer and gently teased the ants for working hard together to stockpile food for the winter. One snowy day, the starving grasshopper asked the ants for food and they said ‘no – you’re on your own’.

A template for capitalism’s approach to education, housing and health. Bereft of empathy, concern and summed up as ‘I’m alright, screw you.’ As a bumblebee type, I offer a humane version.

In my telling, the Bumblebee welcomes the Grasshopper into its home. After enjoying a fine feed, the Grasshopper thanks his host with a wee bit of music. The tune gives the bumblebees the solution to passing on information on where to find the good pollen.

How? Well, they bumblebee boogie to the beat and find that they can show the way to the pollen by waggling their booty down a figure of eight shape with length giving distance and the angle joining top and bottom of the figure showing direction.

Soon, bees of all kind, bumble and honey, are doing what they call the Caterpillar Dance to show how to find the good stuff. Starvation becomes a distant memory, food is plentiful and flight times plummet. Since bees live until they expend their energy, reducing the amount of flying to find pollen sends life expectancy rocketing.

Human beekeepers later observe it and call it the Waggle Dance, crediting it to bees as they are seen as more businesslike than the bumble folk. But we know the truth.

Introducing the bumblebee into the tale gives us kindness, love and community.

Some of us are organised and work through process. Some of us are creative and work through instinct. Bumbling can bring us to an unexpected and revelatory destination. The message of my fable is that all of us are equal.

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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

As a journalist Dom O'Reilly reported from 26 countries from Afghanistan to Serbia covering everything from Olympics to revolutions. He wrote for newspapers which included The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Toronto Globe & Mail, Glasgow Herald and Sunday Herald and The Scotsman and Sunday on Sunday. Dom is currently exploring new avenues for his creativity.

Stella Tripp (with Katerina Koulouri) - Flight Exhibition

Stella Tripp

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.

Flight exhibition - Pink Tardis Gallery, Dagenham Heathway

 

CollectConnect artists are exhibiting a selection of mobiles at the Pink Tardis Community Gallery in Dagenham Heathway during March and April 2026. The theme, Flight, reflects Dagenham's history of early aviation. In the early 1900s the Royal Aeronautical Society established a test facility for prototypes and experimental flying machines near Dagenham Dock. Several machines were built at Dagenham, including a quadruplane designed by Baden Baden-Powell, brother of Robert, the scouting founder.

In recent years Dagenham has become one of the most diverse boroughs in London, with more than 70 different languages spoken within its boundaries. This flourishing diversity is a result of increased migration over the past two decades. It is an excellent representation of CollectConnect artists who draw upon their rich and varied experiences, backgrounds, cultures and nationalities to display their work here during March and April 2026.

The mobiles hang in the Pink Tardis Gallery, Heathway Shopping Centre, Dagenham. Open Monday to Saturday 8:30am – 8:00pm and Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm. 

Artists include Francesca Albini, Eskild Beck, Dean Reddick, Alban Low, Bryan Benge, Oscar Newcombe, Melanie Honebone, Stella Tripp, Chris Brown, Alison Stirling and Natalie Low.

During March and April we will be publishing written responses inspired by the artwork here on the website and on Facebook. This includes creative writing from Dom O'Reilly, Bella Weerasinghe, Katerina Koulouri, Simon Tyrrell, Keziah Reddick, Natalie Low, Ed Arantus, Jack Low, Diya Sengupta, Dean Reddick, and Ginny Reddick.

Stella Tripp

A special thank you to Katja Rosenberg of Art Catcher for giving us this opportunity.

Katja Rosenberg, Alban Low and Dean Reddick

Stella Tripp 3 (with Ed Arantus) - Sets, Series and Ensembles

Stella Tripp 3

Welcome to Sets, Series and Ensembles, an exhibition of art in public places. Accompanying each public art placement is a 'First Response' for you to read here on the website. As artists and writers we are constantly collecting ideas, objects, themes, and sentiments. We are often searching for the connections and narratives that help us understand both our lives and our art. 

We're nearing the end of our exhibition (two more to go), and we've really enjoyed the trilogies presented by both Stella Tripp and Chris Brown. Today we have the third of Stella Tripp's artworks. We are always delighted by the range of work that Stella sends us, and the rich ideas that her art inspires. It is Ed Arantus who takes a walk on the darker side of these themes, read his words below. 

Stella Tripp 3

Pit
Ed Arantus

I stepped to the edge freely, though not so freely as to present myself into apparent danger, they had dug the great pit in the churchyard of our parish, St Mary’s.
A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to peer inside. As near as I may judge, there was about forty in number. Atop the pale and wrapped figures lay on many, a trinket. Sixteen at the time I first looked. It was said they were made by the hand of the kind and kin. I saw the bauble of the Digger and the Dikeman, the Horsehair Dealer and the Feather Wife, the canes of the Nightwalker and Gynour. The sickness was long a-coming to our people, yet, when it did come, there was no family spared, no land nearby where it raged with such violence as ours.

Stella Tripp 3

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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

Ed Arantus is a conceptual artist and writer. He published his first work in the Censored Zine in 2010 and has exhibited his work ever since at venues like the Contemporary Arts Research Unit in Oxford and the Museum of Futures in Surbiton.

https://edarantus.blogspot.com

Stella Tripp 3

Stella Tripp (with Dean Reddick) - Sets, Series and Ensembles

 

Stella Tripp

Welcome to Sets, Series and Ensembles, an exhibition of art in public places. Accompanying each public art placement is a 'First Response' for you to read here on the website. As artists and writers we are constantly collecting ideas, objects, themes, and sentiments. We are often searching for the connections and narratives that help us understand both our lives and our art. 

Stella Tripp's packets hang over a murky river, a lure or an offering to whatever lies in the waters below. Look closely at the packets and see what has been prescribed. Stella is a regular and long standing exhibitor with us and we are delighted, as ever, to bring you her art. Our first responder this morning is Dean Reddick who adds his words.

Stella Tripp

The River Goddesses 

The Algorithmic Idiot Machine lurched into action

Blister-packing our fragile skeletons and sweet memories

Attempting to codify our subtle differences, our blushes and spirals.

 

Confined in plastic and separated we slowly dried out and hardened.

 

We sang our discontent, each in our bubble, our complaint against uniformity.

And from outside, from the River, the Goddesses heard us and took pity on our desiccation.

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

Dean Reddick is an artist and art therapist. He likes to work with casting processes and has a passion for drawing and growing trees.  https://deanreddick.blogspot.com/ 

Stella Tripp 2 (with Natalie Low) - Sets, Series and Ensembles

 

Stella Tripp

Welcome to Sets, Series and Ensembles, an exhibition of art in public places. Accompanying each public art placement is a 'First Response' for you to read here on the website. As artists and writers we are constantly collecting ideas, objects, themes, and sentiments. We are often searching for the connections and narratives that help us understand both our lives and our art. 

Here's the first of three collections from multimedia artist Stella Tripp. Today she casts us a lifeline of blister packs, but do they help us sink or swim? Natalie Low provides us with our daily dose of writing. Read it below.

Stella Tripp

One pill kill and one pill cure,
But which one’s which? I’m never sure.
Your poison and your ecstasy
always taste the same to me.
I don’t know until too late
If I’ll overdose on love or hate.
And as I sink the doubts begin:
Did you throw a line or throw me in?
One pill cure and one pill kill,
I can’t tell which you give me. Still.

Natalie Low

Stella Tripp

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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

Natalie Low is a creative knitter, stitcher and quilter. She lives in London, UK with her charming family. She has published two chapbooks Dementia (2015) and recently School Run (2017).

Alertism - Stella Tripp

Welcome to the Alertism exhibition, featuring artistic and literary works that were inspired by the Emergency Alert test message that was sent to people with a mobile device on Sunday 23rd April at 3pm.

Often alerts come in the form of a visual warning, a code that needs to be deciphered. In an increasingly overloaded visual landscape we are bombarded with signals via phones, road signs, and packaging. Which do we act upon first? Do we need to make a decision quickly? Here, artist Stella Tripp sends a triptych of images, the challenge for our First Responder is to unravel the mystery behind them. Jessie G Vaughan is our brave responder, she really puts herself on the line by opening the alert live on camera! Thank you to both artist and First Responder for adding a new and unexpected interplay for the exhibition.

Stella Tripp

First Responder: Jessie G Vaughan

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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

Jessie G Vaughan has been with us at CollectConnect since our first street art exhibition in 2010, Fab Fridge. When we exhibited mini magnetic artworks on the streets of Bath. She followed this up quickly with Freezchester, a magnetic exhibition in the Arndale Centre in Manchester. An excellent printmaker and artist in her own right, we look forward to exhibiting more Jessie G Vaughan artworks in the future.

Last Day - Love Tokens and Bad Pennies

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Love Tokens and Bad Pennies exhibition. From artists to writers, and not forgetting all of you who have been out looking for artworks and getting involved online. After placing artworks out on the streets for 30 days we reach the end of the exhibition. Today we are posting the final artworks, some have written pieces to accompany them and some exist on their own. We will try and write an update in the next few weeks, visiting some of the locations and see if the artworks still rest in the #unsettledgallery spaces.

The next exhibition is the Art of Caring at St George's Hospital in May (and then onto St Pancras Hospital in July). The deadline is 7th April 2019 so please send in your artwork (It's free to enter) and support the nurses, carers and the NHS. http://collectconnect.blogspot.com/p/submit.html

Tracy Boness - #unsettledgallery No.8, London Bridge

Art - Tracy Boness / Words -  Francesca Albini

Precious and frayed,

Tangled and free,

Caught in a net,

Sparkling diamonds,

Our love

Eternal

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Melanie Honebone

Art - Melanie Honebone / Words - Ed Arantus 

That knot in the pine brow

A cut near the front eye

The moon is high; from sides of the world where nightmares grow

You made all my fears and,

You held them in raptures

But there's no magic without death you said

You are a belief, short rotting

A prophecy dying on a dull mind

You can save your second coming,

I'm not the kind you need to pray for

Now I know where we went wrong

Growing green branches from dead wood

And I still swear that you can’t save me

Even when push, came to push, came to shove

Well you can swallow that sweet breath baby,

Until your death is the magic of love.

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Stella Tripp

Art - Stella Tripp / Words - Kevin Acott

One World

People have asked me what Nelson would think about Trump and all the hate swirling across the earth. Sometimes I tell them they should listen to The Three Great Alabama Icons by Drive-By Truckers. Sometimes I tell them Nina accused Nelson once of being 'no better than the rest of your people'. Sometimes I ask them why they really want to know.

The first and last interview I did with Nelson, he was drunk, drunker even than other people had led me to expect. We were in his room in some crappy hotel in Mile End and at one point he started talking about desire and Muddy Waters and - of all people - Bertrand Russell. He said Russell was convinced desire dictated everything we did, good and bad. To Nelson, Russell’s ‘desire’ wasn't about sex. He meant, instead, that even when we try to do good, it's because of desire: our desire to possess, to compete and overcome other people, to look good in the eyes of the world, to have power over ourselves, others, the whole world. To become, ultimately, God.

He told me all this and I listened and tried to follow and tried to make notes and then I watched him tip gently back onto the bed and start snoring.

So. We want the best for others because we want to become God. Nelson's 'Kissinger Blues' was, I'd always thought, simply about how there's something evil in each of us, a Kissinger, a Hitler, a Trump. But in that East End hotel, I suddenly realised it wasn't that straightforward: have a look at/listen to the YouTube video of Nelson playing it at Glastonbury in '75 and the extra, rambling verses and see what he does with the song he'd once vowed never to play again: he's saying (I think) that by pretending to have good motives for being good, rather than accepting the universality of desire, of egocentricity, we not only miss the point, we find ourselves unable to truly fight racism, hate, division. I could tell you I'm writing this purely because I want to convince you of the genius of Chopsticks Nelson and help preserve his memory. But I also want to accrue, to possess, I also want you to respect me and give me power and a way of being, however temporary, that makes me feel good. And - if we can both accept that – we can eventually find peace and love and the joy of singing a single, shared song. 

From the epilogue to 'Chopsticks Nelson: A Southern Life' by Kevin Acott (2019).

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Dean Reddick

Art - Dean Reddick /  Placement - Walthamstow

To see all the posts from this exhibition in one thread then click here - http://collectconnect.blogspot.com/search/label/Love%20Tokens%20and%20Bad%20Pennies

Stella Tripp - Love Tokens and Bad Pennies

Stella Tripp - Choose Love

Does love endure forever? Does a bad penny always turn up? During this Valentine month the artists and writers from CollectConnect explore this flip-sided theme with an exhibition of 32 miniature sculptures. These objects are placed in public places (#unsettledgallery), helping us to remember those who we hold dear - or cast off those who we would rather forget. Every day throughout February we will be featuring one of these tokens/pennies on this website. A writer will also use the art as inspiration to create something new and fresh.

Art - Stella Tripp / Words - Chopsticks Nelson
Choose Love?

One of the first songs I ever recorded was called 'Choose Love'. Twenty-three people bought a copy. I wrote it in a rickety, cold, optimistic shack up in a forest outside Asheboro, NC, back in the days when the hippies sometimes seemed to have the answer, back before the rips and anguishes of 'Nam and the insanities of Altamont and the 'we fucking knew its' of Watergate. I had nothing up there, nothing except a guitar I could never keep in tune, memories of Carla and San Francisco and what might have been, a couple of bottles of Eagle Rare, and a few cans of tuna. I lasted three days - three days! - but I got the song out of it and (as you probably know) I got Nina out of it. Win some, lose some.

‘Choose Love’ is a four-chorder: Gmaj7 - Bb13 - Ebmaj9 - Ab13. It didn't start that way, but that guitar had a mind of its own and those chords keep the thing pretty much mine, keeps it well away from anyone else.

Choose Love

I watch the long-hairs dance

Watch them prance, baby,

I watch them play at opposing

And supposing

And proposing

We should choose love.

I watch the rich kids play

Watch them lay, baby

Watch them trying to fuck

And trying to suck

And trying their luck and telling us all

We should choose love

Chorus

Ain't going to choose love, darling,

Not when there's fights to fight

Ain't going to choose love, honey,

Not when there's still wrong and right

I watch the flowing skirts spin

Watch them try to win, baby

Watch them twirl and laugh

Trying to change our path

And trying to make us all

Choose a new kind of love

I watch the kids shout at cops, baby,

Watch them wonder why

The Man can't listen

The Man won't listen

To flowers and pot and dreams and hope

Or choose a new kind of love.

Chorus

Ain't going to choose love, darling,

Not when there's fights to fight

Ain't going to choose love, honey,

Not when there's still wrong and right

Introduction: Chopsticks Nelson, in a letter to the author (1978).

Lyrics and music reproduced by kind permission of Sandra Nelson.

Stella Tripp

You can find Stella Trip's artwork outside Colvins in Walthamstow. Colvins is a DIY, ironmonger, wood cutting, paint mixing shop with some of the most knowledgeable staff in the business. In 1949 Colvins Ltd in Wood Street, Walthamstow was set up by an eponymously named businessman but now the popular hardware store is shutting its doors for a final time as numerous high street pressures becomes to much. Here at CollectConnect have always enjoyed exhibiting in urban public places, the high street and the shopping centres. They are evolving and fluid sites that benefitfrom the vibrancy of art and people to make them come alive.

Born in Somerset, Stella Tripp trained locally before attending Camberwell school of Arts and Crafts where she went on to lecture part-time. At the beginning of the eighties Stella travelled to America, Illinois where she developed much of her over arching themes and work practices, such as the decision to stop using rectangular stretched canvases and instead building makeshift constructions to paint on. These better reflected her situation and state of mind. She wrote a thesis exploring the nature of art by comparing art from different cultures and was excited by the possibilities that surface when exploring the nature of art in the light of cultural and societal conditioning: "things don’t have to be as they are; anything goes; anything is possible". Stella is a regular contributor to Collect Connect projects and first exhibited with us at the Lite Bite exhibition in 2011.

www.stellatripp.co.uk/

John 'Chopsticks' Nelson 

John 'Chopsticks' Nelson (February 14th, 1926 – July 13th, 1979) was an American blues singer, guitarist, actor and composer. Notoriously reclusive and hostile to both media and fans alike, Nelson remained a little-known but passionately-followed figure in the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia for much of his life, before becoming more widely known with the release of 'They Call Me Chopsticks' in 1976. 

Originally a backing singer and session guitarist, he contributed to many albums by other musicians, including Sonny Boy Williamson, The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.

Over the course of his career, Nelson's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension, culminating in the controversial 1974 triple album, 'God, Allah and Yahweh' and live shows that became a focus for attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. 

Nelson remains one of the most influential - if least understood - bluesmen in music history. He died in a hunting accident in West Virginia the day after his fourth album entered the Billboard charts at Number Two in July, 1979.
https://twitter.com/ChopsticksNels1

Don't forget to submit to our next exhibition. The Art of Caring is accepting submission until the 7th April 2019. More at http://collectconnect.blogspot.com/p/submit.html

Stella Tripp - Love Tokens and Bad Pennies

Stella Tripp

Does love endure forever? Does a bad penny always turn up? During this Valentine month the artists and writers from CollectConnect explore this flip-sided theme with an exhibition of 32 miniature sculptures. These objects are placed in public places (#unsettledgallery), helping us to remember those who we hold dear - or cast off those who we would rather forget. Every day throughout February we will be featuring one of these tokens/pennies on this website. A writer will also use the art as inspiration to create something new and fresh.

Artist - Stella Tripp / Words -  Rebecca Lowe

All Things Are Connected

Love is a house
And in the house is a room
And in the room is a cage
And in the cage is a bird
And in the bird is a song
And in the song is a note
And in the note is sweetness
And in the sweetness is a flower
And in the flower is pollen
And in the pollen is a bee
And in the bee is a sting
And in the sting is pain
And in pain there is death
And in death there is sadness
And in sadness there is beauty
And in beauty there is truth
And in truth there is love
And love is a house

And in the house is a room…

Stella's Love Token is placed on a bollard in the #unsettledgallery in Walthamstow. The bollards form a part of the 'Little Holland' scheme aimed at reducing traffic and encouraging cycling in the borough.

Stella Tripp at #unsettledgallery Walthamstow

Born in Somerset, Stella Tripp trained locally before attending Camberwell school of Arts and Crafts where she went on to lecture part-time. At the beginning of the eighties Stella travelled to America, Illinois where she developed much of her over arching themes and work practices, such as the decision to stop using rectangular stretched canvases and instead building makeshift constructions to paint on. These better reflected her situation and state of mind. She wrote a thesis exploring the nature of art by comparing art from different cultures and was excited by the possibilities that surface when exploring the nature of art in the light of cultural and societal conditioning: "things don’t have to be as they are; anything goes; anything is possible". Stella is a regular contributor to Collect Connect projects and first exhibited with us at the Lite Bite exhibition in 2011.

www.stellatripp.co.uk/

Rebecca Lowe is a Wales-based writer, editor and performance poet. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Workshop, and her work has appeared in anthologies including Bristol Poetry Can, Red Poets, Blackheath Countercultural Review, and Three Drops from a Cauldron, an anthology of poetry based on folklore and myth. She also plays hammered dulcimer and zither, which she sometimes incorporates into her performances. http://www.writerscafe.org/BeckyLowe

http://swanmedia.wix.com/copywriter-cv

http://writemindfully.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to submit to our next exhibition. The Art of Caring is accepting submission until the 7th April 2019. More HERE.