Well it’s pret­ty much here.… although today ain’t half bad and here’s hop­ing the week­end is kind.

Just a note, there’s rather an insane amount of good stuff open­ing tomor­row at City Gallery Welling­ton. They are launch­ing the Win­ter Sea­son with a heap of new shows. Plus it seems they are sneak­ing in a new web­site (does­n’t seem to be live just yet).

The doors open tomor­row at 10am and there are some great Cap­i­tal City con­nec­tions. Rob McLeod (who any­one who attend­ed Welling­ton High over the last 3 decades will prob­a­bly have been taught art by) has a solo show you can read about here.

Welling­ton’s coolest archi­tect Ian Ath­field and his archi­tec­ture firm Ath­field Archi­tects (that crazy beau­ti­ful Khan­dal­lah build­ing vis­i­ble on the hill on the way to Petone from the city) is being cel­e­brat­ed with an exhi­bi­tion and book launch designed by local design­er Spencer Levine. There are awe­some archi­tec­tur­al mod­els to drool over, pho­tos and more.

Plus the gallery is exhibit­ing works by three Welling­ton pho­tog­ra­phers in the ded­i­cat­ed Hirschfeld space and the Welling­ton City Coun­cil gets to show off its lat­est acqui­si­tions which include Welling­ton artists such as Ngatai Taepa, Mar­tin Thomp­son, Ben Buchanan, Peter Trevelyan, Sian Tor­ring­ton, Bren­dan O’Brien, Diane Prince, Mary-Louise Browne, Arie Hel­len­doorn, Rob McLeod and Kate Small.

There’s also some­thing being referred to as a ‘James Bond Arc­tic Love Nest’ that it sounds like peo­ple may be able to climb inside.…head to the gallery tomor­row from 10am. There are artists’ talks at 2pm (Wi Taepa), 3pm (Rohan Weal­leans) and at 4pm tomor­row Ian Ath­field and Sir Miles War­ren will be in con­ver­sa­tion about all things archi­tec­tur­al! Free entry to all.