Top Art exhibition

View Top Art portfolios and find 2025's exhibition schedule

Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Arts in the previous year.

Five streams are covered: design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Top Art gives secondary students and teachers an opportunity to see what's required to achieve Excellence at Level 3. It also allows members of the public to see the high-quality art created in schools.

The exhibition schedule provides locations, dates and contact details for each leg of the exhibition, this is published in February.

Images for each year's exhibition are uploaded during March.

Exhibition schedule

Find dates and locations for this year's Top Art exhibition

Schedule

2025 Top Art exhibition portfolios

Top Art Design Sophia Wong

Design

Cover art by Sophia Wong, Newlands College

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Top Art painting Arlo Wood

Painting

Cover art by Arlo Wood, Logan Park High School

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Top Art photography Jack Wyeth

Photography

Cover art by Jack Wyeth, Mount Aspiring College

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Top Art printmaking Saffron Mogridge

Printmaking

Cover art by Saffron Mogridge, Rangi Ruru Girls' School

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Top Art scultpure Grace Glover

Sculpture

Cover art by Grace Glover, Riccarton High School

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