Photo: Clara Lacasse
Leisure is a collaborative art practice founded in 2004 by Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Their research-based work explores subjects such as feminist cultural history, working in friendship, and children’s right to creativity — particularly as an antidote to climate anxiety.
Solo exhibitions include Chrysalis and Butterfly (Optica, 2025), Having Ideas by Handling Materials (Oakville Galleries, 2023), The Ceremony (Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, 2021), and How one becomes what one is (Musée d’art de Joliette, 2018). Wesley and Carruthers are currently working on a precedent-setting collaborative PhD at Concordia University.
Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley), Having Ideas by Handling Materials, 2023. Mixed media, dimensions variable. © Leisure. Photo: Laura Findlay
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(information and photos pulled from https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sobey-art-award/artists-2025/quebec#Leisure)
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