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.
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.
September: LIVING FUTURES by Mary Yacoob
The artworks in ‘Living Futures’ imagine alternative forms of life that might emerge through evolving relationships between organic and technological systems. By merging diagrams of botanical and biological forms with diagrams of electrical circuits, satellites and space vehicles, the drawings question contemporary relationships between technology, architecture and ecological systems and relationships between Earth and outer space.
The blue and white drawings evoke architectural blueprints, and reflect how natural forms have historically informed plans for technological innovation, architectural design and science fiction. However, the ambiguous forms in Mary Yacoob’s artworks invite multiple interpretations, and invite viewers to project their own meanings onto the drawings. Diagrammatic form becomes an open-ended space for imagining how different ecological and technological relationships might shape possible futures.