Jacqueline Fahey

Jacqueline Fahey
ONZM
Born 1929 (age 85–86)
Timaru, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealander
Awards Arts Foundation Icon Award

Jacqueline Mary Fahey ONZM (born 1929) is a New Zealand painter and writer.

Biography

Born in Timaru, Fahey was educated at Teschemakers, a now-closed Catholic boarding school for girls, near Oamaru.[1] She then studied at the Canterbury University College School of Art, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1952.[2]

Fahey has three children and was married to prominent psychiatrist Fraser McDonald, who passed away in 1994. [3]

Fahey has written two memoirs about her life: Something for the Birds (2006) and Before I Forget (2012).[1]

Career

Jacqueline Fahey studied at the Canterbury University College School of Art, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1952.[4]

Fahey has been an active painter since the 1950s.[1] She is credited as being one of the first painters in New Zealand to paint from a female perspective and examine the domestic subjects of contemporary women's existence: children, the home, marriage, community life, and relationships.[5] As such, Fahey's work is closely associated with the wider societal women's liberation and feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s.[6]

In 1964, Fahey organised an exhibition with artist Rita Angus at the Center Gallery in Wellington.[1] This exhibition included an equal number of female and male artists and was one of the first exhibitions in New Zealand to take intentionally gender balanced curatorial approach.[1]

In 1980, Fahey was awarded a QEII Arts Council Award to travel to New York and study painting.[7]

During the 1980s and 1990s, Fahey taught painting at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.[1]

In 2007 Fahey's paintings Christine in the Pantry (1972) and Sisters Communing (1974) were included in the major exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.[8]

Fahey's paintings can be found in major public and private art collections across New Zealand, including Victoria University of Wellington's art collection, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery, and the Hocken Collection at the University of Otago.

She was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art in the 1997 New Year Honours.[9] In 2013, she received an Arts Foundation Icon Award, the Foundation's highest honour.[1]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Biography: Jacqueline Fahey - Painter/Writer". The New Zealand Arts Foundations. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: F". Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ New Zealand Listener interview
  4. ↑ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: F". Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Art at Te Papa, McAloon, William (ed), Te Papa Press, 2009, p. 315.
  6. ↑ "Arts and the Nation", Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, accessed 7 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Blundell, Sally. "Interview: Jacqueline Fahey". New Zealand Listener.
  8. ↑ "NZ artist included in critically-acclaimed feminist art show". The Big Idea.
  9. ↑ "New Year honours list 1997". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1996. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.10 Alter/Image, Barton, Christina and Lawler-Dormer, Deborah (eds), City Gallery Wellington and Auckland City Art Gallery, 1993, p. 108.

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