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. Wesley and Carruthers are currently pursuing a collaborative doctorate in the INDI program at Concordia University.

Created in 1991 by the AGAC (Contemporary Art Galleries Association) in partnership with the City of Montreal, the Prix Louis-Comtois is a prestigious award recognizing the work of mid-career artists in Montreal’s contemporary art scene. The award provides recipients with financial support, recognition, and public visibility.

« According to the jury, Leisure deserves wide recognition. Since 2004, the collaborative practice of Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley poses relevant questions about representation, museums, the systemic frameworks and mores (customs/norms) of the art world. Each project is an invitation to share a performative and relational research practice that opens itself up to voices still too often absent or kept away from art and its institutions. »