_Bio Lucas Morneau is an interdisciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan. They have won multiple awards including the BMO First Art Award and the Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant. Morneau has exhibited across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
_Approach Lucas Morneau’s practice employs humor to queer heteropatriarchal traditions and cultural practices in so-called Canada and Newfoundland, deconstructing discriminatory attitudes against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Utilizing drag personas and masquerade, Morneau blends textiles with photography, video art, and performance, embodying various personas such as queer mummers and genderqueer hockey players. Morneau’s practice offers possibilities that extend beyond the confines of the gender binary, presenting tangible reconfigurations of gender and gender performance. _Project Inspired by their family's connections to Quebec's historical professional wrestling leagues, Lucas Morneau embarks on a new project at the upcoming symposium: a fictional queer wrestling league featuring queered wrestling personas. Morneau aims to queer historical wrestling personas with drag aesthetics, investigating wrestling as a form of drag through hypermasculine, effeminate, and genderqueer identities. At the symposium, Morneau will construct one of these personas, employing techniques such as hand dyeing and machine knitting for the costume's creation.
Photo Credit : Annie France Noël
