‘Exchange Piece’ explores collaboration as an act of care through an exchange between 10 early career and senior artists and designers working in pairs to explore how care in the creative process affects the way we relate and position ourselves to what we create.

The exhibition features the work of Khadija Aziz, Jennifer Chan, Leigh Dotey, Laura Kay Keeling, Kristine Mifsud, Moira Ness, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Amy Wong, and Florence Yee and Arezu Salamzadeh as the Rice Water collective, who explore concepts of care and come together in pairs to collaborate on an exchange piece.

This exhibition is curated by DesignTO, co-presented with Harbourfront Centre, and supported by Lemay.

Leigh Dotey

http://leighdotey.com

Leigh Dotey is a designer and maker who lives between Toronto and Philadelphia. They graduated from Sheridan College’s Bachelor of Craft and Design Furniture Program and have been working with unlikely materials and processes creating objects that surprise the viewer and challenge preconceived ideas of form and function. Leigh has extensive experience working with artists all over the globe from Nepal to India to the US. As a gender queer, non-conforming maker, Leigh is committed to challenging assumptions through their material entanglements.