Leisure
Portrait, Leisure, Susannah Wesley and Meredith Carruthers, 2025. Photo: Clara Lacasse.
Leisure (Meredith Carruthers, b. 1975 in St Catharines, CA, and Susannah Wesley, b. 1976 in Simcoe, CA; live and work in Montreal, CA) is a collaborative art practice founded in 2004 by Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Their research-based practice explores subjects such as feminist cultural history, working in friendship, and children’s right to creativity—particularly as an antidote to climate anxiety. They have held solo exhibitions at Optica, Montreal (2025); Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2023–24); and at Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec (2018–19). Carruthers and Wesley are currently working on a precedent- setting collaborative PhD at Concordia University in Montreal.
