FORMULA + FETISH
by Mark Woods
10 May to 28 June 2025
Exhibition Details
Cross Lane Projects is delighted to announce Formula + Fetish a new solo exhibition by Mark Woods, opening Saturday 10 May 2025.
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.
Formula + Fetish features aspects of Woods ever-expanding 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.
Mark Woods (b. 1961, Surrey) is a British artist whose work straddles the charged space between adornment, provocation, and artifice.
In the late 1980s, Woods designed groundbreaking jewellery for Electrum in South Molton Street, which led to commissions, eventually drawing him into the orbit of pioneering gallerists and fashion icons.
In the raw energy of 1990s Hackney and Shoreditch, Woods developed a sculptural language that merged fetishism, religious symbolism, and sexual ambiguity. His Cronenbergian pieces—lurid, lavish, and loaded—speak to human longing with equal parts seduction and discomfort. Championing craftsmanship while dismantling the polite traditions of jewellery, Woods builds objects that seem sprung from a Victorian dream or a high-gloss hallucination.
Image Gallery
Image Gallery features installation views of Formula + Fetish. Photography by Mark Woods. All works copyright the artist.