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In the 40s, just after the war, Māori art was traditional art – carving and that kind of thing. But for the first time a lot of Māori had gone to teachers' college and the ideas around that time were changing. As young students, we wanted to follow our own path rather than follow the traditional
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and lives with his wife Norma. Graham was also a keen rugby player when he was younger and was briefly in the
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Graham's work has been exhibited and sold to collectors with both New
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