Composed of four interlocking koru, this mural was the National Bank Art Award winner in 1971.

Roy Cowan also completed a sculpture for the Reserve Bank’s downtown Auckland premises in 1981.

The work was removed in 2019 to make way for refurbishments of the Reserve Bank’s foyer. It remains stored in a crate on site.

Roy Cowan, ‘Abstract mural’ (1971), Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2019

Roy Cowan, ‘Abstract mural’ (1971), Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020

Roy Cowan, ‘Abstract mural’ (1971) [detail], Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020

Abstract mural

Roy Cowan

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1971–2019

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