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Artist Talk: Jacqueline Fahey
Jacqueline Fahey My Skirt's in Your Fucking Room! 1979. Oil on board. Collection of William Dart, Auckland
Talk
Past event
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Free
Join committed feminist, acclaimed author and legend of New Zealand painting Jacqueline Fahey in a walk around Say Something!
This recently-opened exhibition features some of Fahey's best-known paintings from the 1970s and 80s.
PLEASE NOTE: If there is a big turn out for this talk, it will be moved from the Gallery space to the Philip Carter Family Auditorium. Check with the Front Desk when you arrive to confirm the venue.
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Exhibition
Jacqueline Fahey: Say Something!
22 November 2017 – 11 March 2018
Overflowing with love, conflict and quiet despair, Fahey’s paintings from the 1970s bristle with the intensity of domestic life.
Collection
Jacqueline Fahey Speedy's Return
For the exhibition Jacqueline Fahey: Say Something! (22 November 2017 – 11 March 2018) this work was displayed with the following label:
Fahey’s husband, the noted psychiatrist Fraser McDonald, held positions at a number of institutions throughout New Zealand, and they raised their three daughters in a series of houses on hospital grounds. In Porirua, the gardens were overseen by a patient, Mr Quickly (also known as Speedy), who had studied at Kew Gardens in England and worked on a royal estate. He supplied the family with a steady supply of produce and fresh flowers. Fahey recalled that she could cope with the flowers but that the fruit and vegetables, which he clearly expected her to make into preserves, showed up her shortcomings as a ‘proper’ doctor’s wife. When the family moved to Kingseat Hospital, near Auckland, Mr Quickly came with them. This painting, a study in warm autumnal colours and dappled shadows, celebrates what Fahey described as 'the light he brought into all of our lives'.
film
Jacqueline Fahey: In her own words
Artist Jacqueline Fahey in conversation with curator Felicity Milburn.
Running time 13:21.
Commentary
An Undeniable Promise
There is such a burden of expectation placed on Anne’s painting, and on the exhibition… itself. I feel, like many women painters that she is being asked to prove an undeniable promise. This is unfair.
