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Jacqueline Fahey

b.1929

Bachelor of Fine Arts: IIam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury

Video

Jacqueline Fahey - At The Crossing

Oil on canvas

At The Crossing

A figure in a large sunhat, recognisable as the artist (although uncharacteristically with back to us), is literally in the middle of the crossing. The milk and coke signs are on the footpath outside the dairy, the bus is at the bus stop, a man stumbles towards us with finger in his mouth, a woman stops in her tracks for a good look. Jacqueline Fahey presents us with business-as-usual on her street, or does she?

Essay

Dimensions: 1315x631mm