Alpha Art Studio: 3-5 Alpha St: IHC Telecom Art Awards Regional Exhibition, to August 27.
Avid Gallery: 48 Victoria St: Scott McFarlane’s I have a face…I can smile, like anyone else, from July 20.
Academy Galleries: 1 Queens Wharf: Bronze sculptor Melissa Young is a guest artist for the New Zealand Academy of Fine Art’s Matariki Exhibition, she explores the anguish of motherhood with her work. Another guest artist, Sue Lund, brings her sense of humour and riot of colour to 11 sculptural works, to August 1.
Bettys: The function house and bar is holding an exhibition of Megan Ransom’s work until August 5, when there will be an art auction with auctioneer Frankie Stevens. All proceeds will go to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, 6.30pm, August 5.
Bartley + Company Art: 56A Ghuznee St: Reify, an exhibition by Mary-Louise Brown who spent the beginning of this year on an artists residency at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan, working predominantly with Taiwanese greenstone, to August 7.
Bowen Galleries: 39 Ghuznee St: A Working Kitchen by Noel McKenna, Brendan O’Brien, and Gregory O’Brien, to July 31.
Boatshed Gallery: Boatshed 3 under Frank Kitts: Hand-crafted lampshades and jewellery.
Enjoy Public Art Gallery: 1/147 Cuba St: Enjoy 10 Year Anniversary, 10 off-site and in-gallery projects.
Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre: 836 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt: Marvellous Blind Spots by artist Simon Mark is a photographic exhibition that finds beauty and colour in ordinary scenes, to August 1.
Farsite Gallery: 193 Jackson St: Photoart exhibition by Stuart MacDonald, to August 2.
Katherine Mansfield Birthplace: 25 Tinakori Rd: Playing in the Past exhibits items from the collection that are seldom seen, including books, toys, games, and clothes. Katherine Mansfield Birthplace are asking for the public to lend toys and books from their own past, and in August they will be on show.
Michael Fowler Gallery: 277 Tinakori Rd: Wellington buildings and more.
Mary Newton Gallery: 150 Vivian St: Anarchy in Avondale, new work by Octavia Cook, to August 14.
Manky Chops: 166a Cuba St: Until Further Notice, an exhibition by Yelz and Eek, to July 31.
Millwood Gallery: 291b Tinakori Rd: New South Island Landscapes by Philip Markham.
Onslow Historical Society: Aspects of Our History – historical information on Wellington’s northern suburbs, 1-4pm, Sundays.
Photospace: 37 Courtenay Place: Street Romance, an exhibition of personal photographs taken on the streets of New York and New Zealand by Birgit Krippner, to July 31.
Peter McLeavey Gallery: 147 Cuba St: Sets and Subsets, recent photographs by Yvonne Todd, to July 31.
Quoil Gallery: 149 Willis St: Let’s Hear it For the Boys, jewellery for men group show, to July 30.
Robert Heald Gallery: 209 Leftbank: Swallows and Amazons, featuring Richard Bryant, Peter Madden, Zina Swanson, Dane Taylor, and John Ward Knox, to July 31.
SkyScapes 2.0: Spokes Monkey Inc in association with Yen Comer-Hudson present new painting exploring the light that explodes in evening skies above Wellington Streets, Paramount Theatre, to August 4.
Solander: 218c Willis St: Simon Kaan, New Works on Paper – a series of intaglio woodcuts creating motifs such as the waka, moth, and rainbow, to August 7. Martin Poppelwell, New Works on Paper, Poppelwell’s screen print works show the familiar layers of text, form, and surface, evident in his paintings and ceramics, to August 7.
Suite Gallery: 69 Owen St: It’s The Simple Things by popular artist Wayne Youle, to August 28.
Thistle Hall: Cnr Cuba and Arthur Sts: The Art of Simon Darby, a collection of fantasy and pop culture paintings, to August 1. Nature Coast Artists, a collaboration between a group of artists living on Kapiti Coast, August 3-8.  A World Without Prisons: a public discussion hosted by the Wellington Anarchist Black Cross, and the Aotearoa Solidarity Movement, about abolishing prisons, 7pm, August 4.
The Maori Arts Gallery: Boatshed 2, Frank Kitts: Contemporary Maori art, open 12pm-2.30pm weekdays and 10am-5pm weekends.
Underground Arts and the National Tattoo Museum: 29 Wigan St: Tattoo exhibition.