Jacqueline Fahey: In her own words
Jacqueline Fahey: In her own words
Artist Jacqueline Fahey in conversation with curator Felicity Milburn.
Running time 13:21.
Produced by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in association with the exhibition Jacqueline Fahey: Say Something! (2017).
Filmed by Port Hills Productions.
Related
Collection
Jacqueline Fahey The Portobello Settee
The underlying influence of Dutch Golden Age painting is unmistakable in Jacqueline Fahey’s The Portobello Settee, particularly when seen alongside Gerrit Dou’s The Physician. Similar motifs appear in both works, from draped fabrics and Turkish rugs to books, bowls, windows and repeating circular forms. The small girl’s pose and expression also echo that of the waiting figure in the background of The Physician.Although painted over 300 years apart, both works can also be read as meditations on existence. Dou’s meticulous work considers a lifespan from conception to death, while Fahey’s painting brilliantly assesses the contained disarray of the place and time in which she finds herself; her immediate environment and experience as a mother in early 1970s Aotearoa New Zealand.
(Persistent Encounters, March 2020)
Exhibition
Jacqueline Fahey: Say Something!
11 March 2018
Overflowing with love, conflict and quiet despair, Fahey’s paintings from the 1970s bristle with the intensity of domestic life.
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.