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John Walker
Labyrinth III
(1979–80)
Tate
He studied at Birmingham College of Art from 1955 to 1960. Typical of his large-scale paintingsof that period is Study (acrylic and canvas collage on canvas, 2.2×3.0 m, 1965; London, Tate), in which folded and dramatically lit shapes are presented against a sprayed fencelike background. He continued looking to the American models of Abstract Expressionism and Post-painterly Abstraction.