Lucas Morneau: Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
Eastern Edge is very excited to present our first Main Gallery exhibition of 2026! Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) will be opening with a reception on Friday, February 6th from 6-8pm. We will have lots of snacks and refreshments to go around. We are also excited to bring Lucas and rOGUE Gallery artist Bethany MacKenzie together for a joint conversation about their exhibitions and practices! We hope to see you there. Click here to RSVP to the Facebook event.
Lucas Morneau. St. John’s Sissies (2021). Crocheted yarn. 71 x 171 x 2.5 cm. The Rooms.
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams, all with team names that include pejoratives used against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The artist’s reclamation of these terms not only critiques existing hegemonic masculinity in sports culture, it also aims to create a new, positive, and accepting masculinity for sports enthusiasts.
Lucas Morneau would like to thank ArtsNL for their support.
“St John’s Sissies” is being loaned to Eastern Edge by The Rooms for the duration of the exhibition.
Lucas Morneau (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Ktaqmtuk (Newfoundland). Employing drag as a central tool in their practice, Morneau blends textiles, photography, video, and sculpture to queer Newfoundland/Canadian cultural traditions, exploring gender performativity and challenging the dominance of heteronormative and patriarchal systems within Canada and Newfoundland.
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.