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Fizzing with wit and style and featuring original illustrations by the author, this lively, humorous, and tragic memoir traces the roots of a distinguished painter and her crucial role in New Zealand's feminist movement. Exploring the author's Irish ancestors; childhood in provincial Timaru, New Zealand; bohemian life as a student; and marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser Macdonald, these stories highlight the evolution of culture and visual arts in New Zealand while they brilliantly depict her courageous and flamboyant trek through life.
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Born in Timaru, Fahey was educated at Teschemakers, a now-closed Catholic boarding school for girls, near Oamaru. She then studied at the Canterbury University College School of Art, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1952. Jacqueline Fahey studied at the Canterbury University College School of Art, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1952.
Fahey has written two memoirs about her life: Something for the Birds (2006) and Before I Forget (2012). Fahey has been an active painter since the 1950s. 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.
As such, Fahey"s work is closely associated with the wider societal women"s liberation and feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1964, Fahey organised an exhibition with artist Rita Angus at the Center Gallery in Wellington. 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.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Fahey taught painting at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Los Angeles
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.
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1993 Alter/Image: Feminism and Representation in New Zealand Art 1973-1993, City Gallery Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery.
