NEW BLUE BRIDGE COLLECTIVE

We are a group of artists based in and connected to East London, working across painting, sculpture, street art, ceramics, and wood‑based practices. We come together to share ideas, question norms, and support one another through collective making and dialogue. Our work creates spaces for connection, exchange, and collaboration across disciplines and communities.

  • Ditte Blohm

  • Nefer tipi

  • Deborah Porter

  • Ting Cheng

ARTISTS BIO'S AND WORK

Ditte Blohm

Ditte Blohm is a Danish artist living and working in London. She works across painting and ceramics. She doesn’t plan her work in advance. Instead, she lets her feelings guide her. Her work reads as a diary - about honest moments about love, fear, and identity. 
In 2024, Ditte released a limited-edition book with writer Laura Hinson called ‘Today’s a Rollercoaster But I Won’t Get Off’, a mix of poems and paintings about being a woman and mother.

She has exhibited in the UK and abroad. Ditte studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Kolding Design School in Denmark, and Willem de Kooning Art Academy in the Netherlands.

@ditteblohm
www.ditte-blohm.com

Nefer tipi

Tipi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hackney Wick/Fish Island, London. Through painting, street art and sculpture, she explores themes around life paths, how we are all interconnected, our life choices, and ultimately the brief nature of our existence.

Tipi is influenced by the symbolism and artistry of antique art, including Old Master paintings, 17th Century Vanitas, and South American pre-Columbian and colonial art. She is also inspired by the innovative, colourful and conceptual styles of modern and contemporary art, especially pop culture, postmodern spiritual symbolism and street art.

Tipi holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, and while her professional life has spanned various creative disciplines, she is currently focused on her artistic career, having already exhibited in different spaces across East London.

@nefertipi
www.nefertipi.com

Deborah Porter

Deborah Porter is a contemporary feminist artist born in 1969 in the UK. She was educated at Winchester School of Art, where she recently graduated with distinction in an MA in Fine Arts in 2025. In 1993, she graduated with a BA from City & Guilds Art School, London. She studied graphics at Portsmouth College of Art in 1990 and gained her foundation at Winchester School of Art in 1989.

In October 2025, she was shortlisted for the Student Award for the CASS Art Prize 2025, where she won the Acrylic Painting Award and exhibited at The Copeland Gallery, London.

She has held artist talks in November 2025 at Stroud Valley Arts and The Chapel Arts Association, where she was offered a painting residency in 2019, which concluded in a solo artist's show at Unity Studios,Andover.

@deborahporterartist
www.deborahporterartist.com

Ting Cheng

Ting Cheng is a Taiwanese-British artist based in Brighton, working across photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores subtle relationships between humans, nature, and the everyday, revealing poetry and humour in overlooked moments. Her early photographic works captured fleeting, surreal fragments of daily life, while recent projects, including Little Odd Things, transform discarded objects into sculptural compositions that challenge notions of beauty and value. Since becoming a mother of two, Cheng’s work has embraced an intuitive, play-based process. She has exhibited internationally, including the Saatchi Gallery, Copenhagen Photo Festival, and the Taiwan Biennial, and her publications include One and Two and Up and DownComputer Says No, and Baker Salon.

https://www.ting-cheng.com/
@floatingting