Exhibitions Programme
2021
6 January – 30 January
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Exhibition
Off Grid
Olivia Bax
Cross Lane Projects is proud to present a solo exhibition of new work by Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2019/20 winner Olivia Bax.
The work of Olivia Bax is often characterised by familiar elements such as a hook, handle or vessel presented in unconventional, coloured forms. Bax generates her own paper pulp to cover and form a mantle over linear armatures, moulding each sculpture in this way creates the distinctive texture of the work. Rooted in drawing, the work carries instinctive gestures from start to finish to suggest an action or feeling: slipping and holding: funneling and filtering: draining and containing.
20 January – 31 January
London Art Fair 2021
Cross Lane Projects presents new and existing work by a diverse group of gallery associated artists: Lawson Oyekan, William Plumptre, Rebecca Scott, Nicola Tassie, Olivia Bax and Mark Woods.
23 July to 18 September
Absorption
Mark Woods Solo Show
Cross Lane Projects will reopen with a solo exhibition by Mark Woods. Featuring objects, vignettes and photographs of elaborate artefacts housed in a purposely designed environment that aims to enhance viewers’ disorientation and surprise.
November
Dates TBC
15 October to 5 November
What A Fur Cup
The Political Cartoons and Comics of Martin Rowson
Lakes International Comic Arts Festival 2021
Festival Dates: 14 to 17 October
For nearly 40 years Martin Rowson has been the scourge of the political establishment, focusing his unflinching eye and scurrilous wit on those in power. His cartoons for the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Independent, New Statesman and many more, draw from an encyclopaedic knowledge of western culture and combine with a breath-taking talent for image making.
His comics, including The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and The Communist Manifesto take apparently challenging texts and make them accessible and enlightening for a whole new generation of readers.
What a Fur Cup will feature some of Rowson’s most powerful political cartoons, caricatures and comics and present an entertaining journey through the past forty years of politics and celebrity.
Top left image: Olivia Bax: Grille (Landscape), 2020, steel, chicken wire, newspaper, glue, paint, plaster, foam. Top right image: London Art Fair Logo. Middle left image: Mark Woods, Blonde Bombshell, 2014. Middle right image: Martin Rowson: Fur Cups, 2021. Bottom left image: The Kendal Mountain Festival Logo. All works copyright the artists.