LUCAS MORNEAU
  • Bio
  • The Queer Mummer
    • Exhibitions >
      • The Queer Mummer (Thesis Exhibition)
      • Mascuerade
    • Live Performances >
      • The Queer Mummer In Three Acts
      • WERK OUT!
      • Queer Mummer Puppet Theatre
    • Video Work >
      • Meet Ze Mummer
      • WERK OUT
      • The Queer Mummer Puppet Power Hour
  • Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
  • Light Works
  • Early Works
    • Photography
    • Print
    • Time Based
  • CV
  • Bio
  • The Queer Mummer
    • Exhibitions >
      • The Queer Mummer (Thesis Exhibition)
      • Mascuerade
    • Live Performances >
      • The Queer Mummer In Three Acts
      • WERK OUT!
      • Queer Mummer Puppet Theatre
    • Video Work >
      • Meet Ze Mummer
      • WERK OUT
      • The Queer Mummer Puppet Power Hour
  • Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
  • Light Works
  • Early Works
    • Photography
    • Print
    • Time Based
  • CV
LUCAS MORNEAU
Lucas Morneau is a queer interdisciplinary artist and curator of English-Newfoundlander and French-Quebeçois European settler descent from Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada). They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts at Memorial University – Grenfell Campus in 2016, and their Master of Fine Arts) at University of Saskatchewan in 2018. They have one multiple awards, including the 2016 BMO First Art Award for Newfoundland and Labrador and the 2018 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant. Their work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and ArtsNB.
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Through drag and masquerade like their alter-ego The Queer Mummer, their work explores gender performativity with issues surrounding hegemonic masculinity and its effect on gender expression and identity. Employing several mediums, including but not limited to photography, fibre art, performance, video, installation, printmaking, and sculpture to deconstruct homophobic and transphobic attitudes still prevalent throughout Western culture.

Morneau is currently based in the Sikniktuk region of Mi'kma'ki, where they are working as the Production Manger at Struts Gallery.

Photo by Annie France Noël
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