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LEISURE collective

LEISURE is a multi-disciplinary collaborative art practice between Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers (1975) and Susannah Wesley (1976). Working together under the name "Leisure" since 2004, their practice methodology includes archival research, interviews with artists, site visits, and extending their own conversation and collaboration to include their historical subjects, family members, and community participants. The resulting projects are multidisciplinary in format--from workshops, to published texts, interactive installations, and object-making involving a variety of media. Recent projects on collaboration, gesture and spatial narrative includes: The Ceremony (Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, 2021), Conversation with magic forms (most recently exhibited at CAG Vancouver, 2020), the solo retrospective How one becomes what one is (Musée d’art de Joliette, 2018), Panning for gold/Walking you through (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2017) and Dualité/Dualité (Artexte, Montreal, 2015).