Live Art Performance:

Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark

15 May 6-8pm

6-8pm during the Opening Preview of Felt not Thought… Works on Paper

On Friday 15 May 2026, 6-8pm for the Opening Preview of The Felt not Thought… Works on Paper,  artists and collaborators Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark created a wonderful new piece whilst visitors were able to watch from the sides. The Live Performance is a hand-drawn piece created by mark-making on paper, the vibrant strokes created in the moment allow the visitors to view an aspect that is usually hidden away in studios, the vulnerability to the piece will be on display from creation and the finished piece was directly installed once completed at the centre of Cross Lane Projects.

Felt not Thought…Works on Paper began with an introduction to the works by Anthony Corner through VeniceArtFactory. Corner had been working with them for several years. Through a collaboration with VeniceArtFactory, Shh…what’s that? was exhibited in Vestry St. in 2024. Here the works were taped to the gallery walls, by removing the frame, there is an instant fragility, the barrier between the viewer and the work becomes intimate and approachable.

The title Felt not Thought is taken from an essay and dialogue with Corner’s paintings which will be released alongside the exhibition, written by Professor Michael Banissy. For curator Rebecca Scott, it acted as a starting point, a spectrum. On one end we have “felt”, spontaneity and intuitiveness, and the opposite end we have “thought”, rational thinking and/or conceptual thinking.

About the artists

Sarah Kentis an artist/performer, critic, tutor and curator. She has performed atvenues including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, V&A, Hayward, Barbican, Whitworth Art Gallery, Zabludowicz Collection, the Nunnery, Royal College of Art,Winchesterand Chelsea Colleges of Art, the Ryder Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, Raven Row, Chisenhale and the Coronet Theatre.

Sharon Leahy-Clark is an artist based at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4rD), a drawing tutor and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Head on a Plate Projects(HOPP) was formed in 2022 by Sarah Kent and Sharon Leahy-Clark, both of whom are practicing artists (Kent studied at the Slade School and Leahy-Clark at the Royal College). Their individual practices are not remotely alike – Kent is a performance artist and Leahy-Clark a painter – but they decided to draw together to see what would emerge. The experiment proved to be so rewarding and the results so unexpected – like nothing either of them would produce on their own – that continued the collaboration, and HOPP was born.

Top/bottom image by Liam Collins. Centre image by Alex Giles. Images copyright the artists.