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Local art gives building sites and empty shop windows a facelift in central Wellington


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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) ....

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Helen Kelly: Her Life - author Rebecca Macfie on the kindness warrior


Helen Kelly: Her Life - author Rebecca Macfie on the kindness warrior
14 May, 2021 07:00 AM
7 minutes to read
Helen Kelly, in 2011. Photo / NZ Herald / Paul Estcourt
Everyone used to say Helen Kelly met you with a grin and she expected the best of you, and it was true. Even when the cancer had really sunk its claws in.
Right to the
end, as Rebecca Macfie tells us in her wonderful new book Helen Kelly: Her life , she was still taking meetings, telling people off, reminding them to vote for unionists in the local body elections.
The story goes that she was so overwhelmed by the kindness of green fairies she didn t know what to do with all the cannabis they gave her, sent her, left on her doorstep in the dead of night. All that chocolate, oil, tea and balm , as Macfie puts it. ....

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