Leisure R & D Residency
Leisure Research and Development Residency As the first recipients of the Leisure Research and Development Residency, Jesse Ash and Simon Clark spent four days in Ontario cottage country, pursuing their interest in cultural landscape research while engaging in conversation, leisure…
Leisure Paintings
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…
Darkling Eclipse
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…
Brushing up against the wild
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…
Time To Start Over
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…
Vienna Diary 1: Lina Loos’ bedroom
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…
Leisure & sport: Indoor Rinks
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…