Art From Under

So why were 19th century women the great unknowns of New Zealand art? 

– Director/reporter Katherine Findlay asking a key question, episode one

I am a woman, that's a fact, and I am an artist and I don't think there's a problem. I don't try and be a woman artist. 

– Artist Philippa Blair, episode two

Many women artists have rejected the idea that details of their personal lives are trivial and unfit subjects for art. 

– Director/reporter Katherine Findlay, episode three

Fraser is allowed everything, he's allowed to have his children and he's allowed to be attractive and he's allowed to have a good career. I thought the women's movement was about allowing women those same things!

– Artist Jacqueline Fahey discussing her husband Fraser's freedoms, as opposed to the limits on womanhood, episode four

I think in the old days, which in New Zealand might have only been 10 to 15 years ago, women were self-congratulatory when they could paint like a man and keep up with the big boys. Because that's all there was, the big boys. 

– Director of Wellington City Gallery, Anne Philbin, episode five

I didn't go to art school because I was married, I was hapu at 16. My art teachers wept, everyone wept. 

– Artist Emily Karaka, episode six