Manufacturing Meaning | Jacqueline Fahey: The Birthday Party | 1999

Published 1999 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
14 pages
210 x 148mm, softcover, with colour illustrations
Edited by Christina Barton
Essay by Anna Miles
Design by Meanest Indian in the Land
Printed by Thames Publications Ltd
ISBN 0-9582112-0-5

'This catalogue is one of ten published on the occasion of the exhibition, Manufacturing Meaning: the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection in context. It documents and explains the contribution of guest curator, Anna Miles, to the project. Miles examines Jacqueline Fahey's, The birthday party 1974, in light of the conventions of portraiture, situating the painting in a continuum of historical and contemporary works which explore the relationships of people to their possessions.'

—  Zara Stanhope and Christina Barton, Manufacturing Meaning | Jacqueline Fahey: The Birthday Party