FCG is pleased to publish this new exhibition text in concert with Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, a solo exhibition from Lucas Morneau which runs from July 11 - August 22, 2024.
Amy Siegel is a queer and feminist multimedia artist, scholar, educator, and organizer of artistic projects. Their practice engages with questions about archives, gender, and the body through film and media art. From 2018-2023, Amy was the Creative Director of the ReFrame Film Festival, a social justice documentary film festival in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario. Amy is currently Assistant Professor of Community-Engaged Media Arts at the University of New Brunswick.
Lucas Morneau (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from the island of Ktaqmtuk/Newfoundland. Blending drag with textiles, photography, video performance, and sculpture, their practice queers Newfoundland/Canadian cultural pastimes and traditions, exploring gender performativity and critiquing hegemonic masculinity in so-called Canada and Newfoundland.
Morneau has exhibited solo exhibitions throughout Canada, as well as exhibited in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Notable exhibitions include Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, at ODD Gallery in Dawson City, YK, Kamloops Art Gallery in Kamloops, BC, and Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax, NS, and The Queer Mummer at Grenfell Art Gallery in Corner Brook, NL, Acadian University Art Gallery in Wolfville, NS, and Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, NS.
Morneau has participated in residencies across Canada, including Critical Mass’ 2021 Artist in Residence program in Port Hope, Ontario, and 41e Symposium international d‘art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec in 2023.
Morneau has won multiple awards and honours, including the 2016 BMO 1st Art Award for Newfoundland and Labrador, the 2018 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant, the 2018 and 2021 Scotiabank New Generations Photography Award Shortlist, and the 2024 Sobey Art Award Longlist. They have also received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and ArtsNB.
Morneau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland—Grenfell Campus (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Saskatchewan (2018). They currently live in the Siknikt distric of Mi’kma’ki — Sackville, New Brunswick, where they work as the Production Manager for artist run-centre Struts Gallery.
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