CROSS LANE PUBLISHING

ON THE THICK AND THIN OF PAINTING

Phillip Allen, Tom Benson, Glenn Brown,
Cecilia Charlton, Martina Geccelli, Alexis Harding,
Fiona Rae, Daniel Sturgis, Hayley Tompkins

Conceived by British painter Daniel Sturgis, On the Thick and Thin of Painting explores the materiality of the medium, its physical and ethereal boundaries, and the enduring subculture of abstraction.

The exhibition is framed as a visual dialogue between nine artists’ work, where the title refers to how each artist navigates the formal and conceptual densities of paint. Whether applied with full-bodied gusto, delicate slightness, or felt through its absence, the “thick and thin” of the exhibition’s title serves as a metaphor for how each artist uses an idea of paint to position their work against art history, the contemporary moment, and the belief in painting as a critical and durable medium.

This publication features original texts:

• Notes on an Exhibition by Daniel Sturgis
• On pleasure and unpredictability, on acting and waiting, on surprise and the accidental by Martin Holman

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, On the Thick and Thin of Painting (18 July to 19 September 2026).

Paperback
ISBN:  978-1-7397170-6-3
First published 2026
Edition of 200

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CONFLUENCES

Mark Woods, Jim Whiting, Stella Whalley, Gavin Turk, Rebecca Scott, Lawson Oyekan, Michael Petry, Julia Maddison, Lee Holden, Cathy de Monchaux, Helen Chadwick, Cedric Christie, Louise Bourgeois, Jim Bond, Sooz Belnavis, Atty Bax and Vanya Balogh.

Confluences, curated by Rebecca Scott, this exhibition explores the influences and dialogues between Cross Lane Projects’ co-director Mark Woods and the artists who have crossed his path in his years living in London and Cumbria.

Artists include Mark Woods, Jim Whiting, Stella Whalley, Gavin Turk, Rebecca Scott, Lawson Oyekan, Michael Petry, Julia Maddison, Lee Holden, Cathy de Monchaux, Helen Chadwick, Cedric Christie, Louise Bourgeois, Jim Bond, Sooz Belnavis, Atty Bax and Vanya Balogh.

This publication features an introduction text by Rebecca Scott.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Confluences (19 July – 13 September 2025).

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-7397170-5-6
First published 2025
Edition of 200

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FORMULA + FETISH

Mark Woods

For over three decades, Mark Woods (born 1961 in Surrey, UK) has produced elaborate artefacts that blur the boundaries between jewellery, fine art, fetish objects and items from cabinets of curiosities. Unnerving and evocative, the viewer is confronted with dramatic beauty, sophisticated craftsmanship and an awakening of unexpected emotions. Woods’ works invite you to leave your comfort zone and question human desires.

Published by Black Dog Press, this is the first monograph on the work of Woods, featuring a range of media including sculpture, installation, photography and jewellery-making. The book offers new essays and conversations about his work by leading art critics Paul Carey-Kent, Michael Petry and Peter Suchin, who offer individual and insightful responses to Woods’ world of objects and imagery.

Formula + Fetish is a fully illustrated book that brings together four key aspects of Woods’ practice: “Objects” – luxurious objects of desire and contemporary art fetishes; “Jewellery” – the origins of the artist’s skills in object making; “Photographs” – creative images; and “Self-Portraits” – a performance with the camera lens.

Hardback

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• Cross Lane Projects, Cross Lane, Kendal, LA9 5LB
• Vestry St. Floor 1, 6-8 Vestry St, London, N1 7RE

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Publication supported by Cross Lane Publishing.

STRANGE GAZE

Emily Allchurch, Hans Bellmer, Dan Coombs, Emma Cousin, Mark Fairnington, Ian Frith Powell, Martin Greenland, Dereck Harris, Denise Hawrysio, Mike Healey, James Mackie, Bex Massey, Pascal Rousson, Rebecca Scott, Perdita Sinclair and Suzy Willey.

Strange Gaze: Surrealism at Cross Lane Projects, continues the world-wide celebrations marking 100 years of surrealism. Today’s neo-surrealism neither smoothly continues surrealism’s original projects, nor makes a clean break with them. Instead, it adapts the pioneers’ discourse to what each artist finds pertinent at the present juncture. The exhibition, curated by the artist Rebecca Scott, brings together 16 artists with dreamlike and figurative works that reference and react to the current political and ecological context.

This publication features original texts:

• The obscure object of neo-surrealism by Glenn Ward.
• Ostranenie in Action by Peter Suchin.
• The Thief of Baghdad by Mike Healey.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Strange Gaze: Surrealism at Cross Lane Projects. (5 October to 24 November 2024).

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-7397170-4-9
First published 2024
Edition of 250

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LANDSCAPE OF THE GODS

Julian Cooper, Mark Fairnington, Alex Giles, Martin Greenland, Lee Maelzer, Bex Massey, Michael Petry, Alun Williams and Rebecca Scott.

Landscape of the Gods, brings together the work of nine artists to explore an interconnection with the landscape; the ceremonial, the mythical, the manmade, the dystopian, the inhabited and the emotive.

Artists include Julian Cooper, Mark Fairnington, Alex Giles, Martin Greenland, Lee Maelzer, Bex Massey, Michael Petry, Alun Williams and Rebecca Scott.

This publication features original texts:

• Introduction by Rebecca Scott.
• Landscape of the Gods by Michael Petry.
• The Prospect of Landscape by Matthew Bowman.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Landscape of the Gods, at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal (29 July – 23 September).

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-7397170-3-2
First published 2023
Edition of 250

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HIGH ON HOPE

Mark Fairnington, Roy Holt, Gerard Hemsworth, Rebecca Scott, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger, Mark Wallinger and Suzy Willey.

High on Hope was conceived as a memorial exhibition for the artist Gerard Hemsworth (1945 – 2021). It brings together a selection of Hemsworth’s canvases and work by eight other artists whom he taught, on the part-time Master’s programme at Goldsmith’s College in South London, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The exhibition, curated by artist Rebecca Scott, focuses on artists whose work she sees as resonating with Hemsworth’s own engagement in a type of ‘post-conceptual figurative or representational painting’.

Artists include Mark Fairnington, Roy Holt, Gerard Hemsworth, Rebecca Scott, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger, Mark Wallinger and Suzy Willey.

This publication features original texts:

• Introduction by Daniel Sturgis.
• (Post-) Conceptual Painting by Julien Delagrange.
• A Letter by Dr Mo Throp.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, High on Hope, at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal (23 July – 24 September, 2022).

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-7397170-1-8
First published 2022
Edition of 250

£12 + P&P

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