The All Good Art Gallery
A new exhibition every month
Our back room was turned into an art gallery in 2024. Each artist has free rein to do what they want with the space. We've hosted paintings, drawings, projections and textile works.
We support local artists primarily (although do sometimes bring in artists from elsewhere). Some artists have donated works to the shop, some have art for sale and some run workshops. And we run free launch events for each one.
July: HARINGEY HAMSTER by Ellie Bradford
Haringey Hamster: An exhibition about mental illness, masking, talking animals and feeling left behind
Welcome to the last five years of my life. This exhibition brings together work made while recovering from BPD, trying to make sense of paranoia, anxiety, strange thinking, burnout and the feeling of constantly being behind. Through videos, performances, paintings and an ongoing web series, I document the messy reality of living through mental illness and recovery. The work doesn't try to neatly resolve anything - it just pieces together fragments of different versions of myself, finding humour, absurdity and healing within the chaos.
At the centre of the exhibition is a tension between performance and reality. From the absurd sitcom world of my web-series Cats of Tottenham and years of footage filmed inside my flat and around Tottenham, to paintings where I literally insert myself into classical scenes, the work explores masking, identity and the stories we create to survive. The exhibition culminates in Haringey Hamster, my own failed version of Jiminy Cricket: a reluctant moral guide, emotional support animal and artist who, much like me, doesn't really know what she's doing but keeps going anyway.
August: FACES, PLACES AND THINGS by Philip Franks
In common with everyone else in the UK, I spent lockdown reviving old passions and attempting to find new ones. My industry ( the theatre) had shut down completely and a return to drawing was the obvious choice. I’ve always drawn but years go by when I’ve convinced myself that I was too busy. Not any more. I started drawing or painting every day, got a bit better and tried to keep it up when work came back to life.
A number of these are places I’ve toured to. I’ve done a lot of dogs to commission and occasional portraits.