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8.55pm: Late night road reminders State Highway 58 Paremata roundabout to Postgate Dr will be closed for four nights starting from 9pm tonight. Works will take place from 9pm to 4.30am. Motorists have been asked to detour via Whitby. State Highway 1 Mt Victoria Tunnel will be closed tonight from 9pm to 4.30am for maintenance. Drivers should make detours via Newtown or Oriental Parade.
7.20pm: State Highway 1 Urban Motorway lanes are all open.
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Artworks by Xoë Hall, Miriama Grace-Smith and Gina Kiel has been commissioned to add visual vibrancy to areas in the central city currently in a state of flux, like the central library. Miriama Grace-Smith took inspiration from Lyall Bay surf beach, Zealandia, fruit and veggie markets, and deep-sea diving. Xoë Hall’s work was based on the local legend of the taniwha, Ngake and Whataitai, who shaped the Wellington harbour while trying to break free to the ocean. Only one of them made it – the other got stuck, becoming Hataitai Hill.
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Xoë Hall is also the artist behind the David Bowie mural on Ghuznee St, commissioned by Jam Hairdressing. (File photo)
Arihia Latham05:00, May 01 2021
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Lady Diva says Tohu, bold wood flag inspired pieces showing stylised whetū in shades of the coastline represent navigation including her own journey from graffiti to gallery walls.
Graffiti art is like coded communication, it’s a medium of expression for many communities and cultures that feel oppressed or voiceless, it’s a way of expressing political thoughts and feelings or is simply political because it is reclaiming spaces that have been taken by capitalism, gentrification, ultimately colonisation. It’s an art form that has often sat beside hip hop in an uprising of indigenous voice in colonised spaces.