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VISITORS to the Hamilton Art Gallery are now seeing Oriental water colours among the most brilliant work in the Eastern world. Gallery director, Mr. John Ashworth, gave the work by Hong Kong painter Henry Wo Yue-kee this unreserved recognition during the exhibition’s opening on Tuesday night. The exhibition shaped as the gallery’s most important of 1974. Mr. Wo and his wife were in Hamilton for the opening of his first public gallery exhibition in Australia. In his opening address, Mr Ashworth sad Mr. Wo had centuries of Chinese art tradition behind him, and his work defied copying by Western painters. “We’re seeing here some of the most brilliant work in the world,” Mr. Ashworth said. “It’s wonderful to see the artist here, with centuries of tradition behind him.”