Jacqueline Fahey

Jacqueline Fahey is one of New Zealand's best-known artists. Born in 1929, she has often focused on domestic and suburban life, and was included in a 2007 exhibition of 100 Feminist Painters in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She was married to eminent psychiatrist Fraser McDonald and lived for many years with her family of three daughters in the grounds of the psychiatric hospitals which he oversaw. She has written two memoirs, Something For the Birds and Before I Forget