Gordon Walters

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Amoka (1972), screenprint, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. One of Walters' koru prints.
Amoka (1972), screenprint, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. One of Walters' koru prints.

Gordon Walters (1919-1995) was a pioneer of modernist abstract painting in New Zealand. Walters is best known for his geometric abstract Koru works, whose unique stylisation of the Māori koru motif developed out of a phase of experimentation in the 1950s.

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