JACQUELINE FAHEY
Jacqueline Fahey gained prominence in New Zealand in the late 1970s for her paintings of women and domestic life, revealing a feminist ideology previously absent from New Zealand art. Fahey’s work is autobiographical but scrutinises the underlying nature of human behaviour.
She was one of the first New Zealand artists to paint from a woman's perspective, choosing subjects to express her feminist concerns. In 1964, with Rita Angus, she organised an exhibition at Wellington's Centre Gallery, which showed equal numbers of female and male painters and was almost certainly the first deliberately gender balanced public art show in this country.
Jacqueline Fahey has exhibited in many solo and group shows and was selected to represent New Zealand at the 1985 Sydney Perspecta and her was included in the 2007 exhibition 100 Feminist Painters, held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007.
Fahey attended Canterbury College School of Art, Christchurch, New Zealand and has work in the collections of most public art museums in New Zealand.
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