Tawa. From the portfolio: Barry Lett Multiples

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Tawa. From the portfolio: Barry Lett Multiples

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

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One motif. Thirty years of exhaustive exploration. Gordon Walters’ koru series combines a customary Māori symbol with European abstraction in seemingly endless ways. Walters’ obsession with the koru began early. As a boy, he spent hours exploring the Māori and Pacific works at the Dominion Museum, Te Papa’s predecessor. For Māori , the koru symbolises new life and has a special place in customary art

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Image

Date created

1969

Creator

Gordon Walters

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37653

Related subjects

ink / paper / works of art / screen prints / works on paper / screen printing / Modernist / Auckland

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