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Jacqueline Fahey was born in Timaru , educated at Teschemakers Catholic Boarding College and began studying art at age 16 at Canterbury College School of Art from 1946-51 where she was taught by illustrator Russell Clark.

She is now, the only surviving member of the group of renowned Canterbury women artists that once included Rita Angus and Evelyn Page.

She began her career as a painter in the 1950s and was one of New Zealand’s first artists to paint from a woman’s perspective choosing her subjects , materials and methods to express her feminist concerns.

One of Jacqueline’s recurring themes is the validation of women’s domestic labour and the conflict and challenge that is often involved.

Jacqueline has exhibited in many solo and group show throughout her career.  She was selected to represent New Zealand at the 1985 Sydney Perspecta and her work was included in the 2007 exhibition 100 Feminist Painters at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

In the late 1980s she became an influential lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University. An accomplished writer, her memoir, Something for the birds, was published by Auckland University Press in 2006.