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Cross Lane Projects is a contemporary art gallery based in Kendal, Cumbria. Vestry St. Founded by artists Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods.

is a salon style space in London, both presenting exhibitions of contemporary art by artists local and international.

17/06/2026

(left to right) Stella Whalley: 'Wast Water', 'Langdale' and 'Ashness' 2026, watercolour on paper, 150 x 120cm each.

Stella Whalley is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and curator celebrated for her innovative engagement with feminist and social themes, currently through watercolour and ceramics. Her practice merges traditional techniques with contemporary narratives, exploring topics that resonate on both personal and societal levels. National and international exhibitions at Cross Lane Projects Kendall, Vestry St Gallery the London Art Fair, exhibitions alongside the Venice Biennale. Arts council funded for the Nakanojo Biennale installation in Japan. A 4,000-meter yarn installation at the Wilson Gallery in Cheltenham, the Victoria & Albert Museum London, Birmingham City Art Gallery, and a book launch for Tokyo Tales at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Felt not Thought... Works on Paper continues until 4 July 2026

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Entry

Cross Lane Projects, Kendal LA9 5LB

16/06/2026

(left to right) Gerard Hemsworth: 'Little Bunker', 2018, inkjet print; 'Grass and Bunker', 2016, inkjet print; 'Suburban Garden', 2009, inkjet print.

Gerard Hemsworth was born in London in 1945. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London from 1963-67 and his work has been exhibited internationally since the 1970’s. Art education was extremely important to him, and he maintained close connections to art schools throughout his career, teaching in many institutions in both the UK and internationally. The last position he held was as Professor of Fine Art and Director of the MFA Fine Art Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London which he held until 2011. In that year he moved his studio from London to Hastings and subsequently designed and built a house with studios in the East Sussex countryside where he lived and worked until his death in 2021.

Felt not Thought... Works on Paper continues until 4 July 2026

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Entry

Cross Lane Projects, Kendal LA9 5LB

13/06/2026

Alex Giles: 'Trees' 2026, coloured card, 120 x 140cm.

Born in rural Northumberland, in the Northeast of England Alex Giles now lives and works in Lancaster. After graduating in Fine Art from the University of Derby in 2006, Alex pursued a rewarding career in film, progressing to the role of production designer. However, in early 2020 he decided to dedicate his full attention to painting, and things moved fast. Giles’ first solo show ‘Eye Hurters’ opened late 2020 at the White Elephant Gallery in Lancashire and the entire collection was acquired by the Deji Museum, Nanjing, China. Following this Alex has continued to exhibit and sell work consistently at both a local and international level, and his fourth solo exhibition ‘Progressivism’ opened in January 2024 at Casal son Tugores, Alaró, Mallorca, Spain In January 2026, Alex was awarded a major commission for Universal Music – producing the artwork for their presence at the 2026 Brit awards in Manchester.

Alexander Giles

Felt not Thought... Works on Paper continues until 4 July 2026

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Entry

Cross Lane Projects, Kendal LA9 5LB

11/06/2026

Felt not Thought... Works on Paper

This piece was created in a live performance by Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark during the private view.

See it at Cross Lane Projects, open Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm, free entry until 4 July 2026.

Sarah Kent is an artist/performer, critic, tutor and curator. She has performed at venues including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, V&A, Hayward, Barbican, Whitworth Art Gallery, Zabludowicz Collection, the Nunnery, Royal College of Art, Wi******er and 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.

09/06/2026

Felt not Thought... Works on Paper

16 May to 4 July 2026

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Entry

Anthony Corner, Gerard Hemsworth, Barbara Nicholls, John Plowman, Stella Whalley, Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark, Rebecca Scott, Ashley Beerdat, Alex Giles

Curated by Rebecca Scott

Image: (left) Rebecca Scott: 'Tao of the First Grandchild' 2025, acrylic on watercolour on paper, 230 x 100cm.

(right) Rebecca Scott: 'Skin and Hair' 2025, acrylic paint and spray paint on paper, 150 x 120cm.

04/06/2026

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'Maybe it’s time we did a little more thinking about how we feel when encountering artworks, exhibitions, and diverse other aspects of the art world. Feelings felt by audiences, as well as those felt by artists, can all be considered relevant during those key times art comes into being and subsequently gets to be perceived as art. Art evolves, in part perhaps, because of this emotion-led element.

But, thinking about Cross Lane Project’s new exhibition which (thanks to that word ‘not’ being placed slap-bang in the middle of its title) seemed to consider thought irrelevant or unwelcome, I have to admit my personal feelings as I travelled to Kendal included some apprehension.'

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29/05/2026

FELT NOT THOUGHT... WORKS ON PAPER

Anthony Corner, Gerard Hemsworth, Barbara Nicholls, John Plowman, Stella Whalley, Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark, Rebecca Scott, Ashley Beerdat, Alex Giles

Curated by Rebecca Scott

16 May to 4 July 2026

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Entry

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27/05/2026

22/05/2026

FELT NOT THOUGHT... WORKS ON PAPER

Anthony Corner, Gerard Hemsworth, Barbara Nicholls, John Plowman, Stella Whalley, Sarah Kent + Sharon Leahy-Clark, Rebecca Scott, Ashley Beerdat, Alex Giles

Curated by Rebecca Scott

16 May to 4 July 2026
PV: Friday 15 May, 6-8pm

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....

More information at link in bio ⬆️

Works on the left: Gerard Hemsworth.
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Cross Lane
Kendal
LA95LB

Opening Hours

Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm

Website

http://www.crosslaneprojects.com/, https://vestry-st.com/

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