Leisure Gallery

Watercolour is sly – it appears to be one thing but is also another. Through its shifting and lucid quality watercolour is capable of being both playful and sublime – from leaving the most simple and ephemeral of marks, to building the deepest layers of complexity. Watercolour has been relegated to the sidelines – the […]

Darkling Eclipse is introduced with a flurry of silver confetti. Amongst the tinsel drifts of this explosion we can imagine golden scrapings from the encrusted facades of the Ringstrasse, the acanthus topped Secession and the brilliant rain of Klimt’s Danaë canvas. Throughout the vernissage we invite visitors to view the show through the eyes of […]

Join Leisure Projects for our Imaginary Places Residency event at the Banff Springs Hotel. Tea will be served promptly at 11am. Please RSVP – places are limited. BRUSHING UP AGAINST THE WILD- Event and folio With special thanks to instructor Marisa Dario and ballet dancers from Terpsichore Dance Inc., Canmore Alberta Baudelaire wrote, “You know […]

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 NO FOUNDATION is pleased to present Time To Start Over, a group exhibition of recent works by artists Lauren Hall, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino and Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley). Each […]

In his 1908 paper “Crime and Ornament”, Adolf Loos postulated, “The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of everyday use”. In part because of the stirring title of this text, as well as other racy, erotic and problematic assertions, this text continues to haunt visual artists in our time […]

Between the 1860s and the 1890s, Canada led the world in the construction of indoor skating rinks with natural ice. These enormous rinks kept the ice free from snow, and protected skaters from fierce winter winds. Indoor rinks could often accommodate up to 3,000 skaters and spectators. They were also used for skating competitions and […]