Top Art exhibition

View Top Art portfolios and find the 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

2026 Top Art exhibition portfolios

A painting of girls and flowers, part of this year's Top Art tour

Painting

Cover by Yolanda Chang, Epsom Girls' Grammar

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A sculpture involving a bird, part of this year's Top Art tour

Sculpture

Cover art by Taipua Kipa, Waitakere College

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A photo of a person in shades of pink and blue, part of this year's Top Art tour

Photography

Cover art by Sieli Finau, Tawa College

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A digitally created cat, part of this year's Top Art tour

Design

Cover art by Princess Florielle Collada, Massey High

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A print showing a rat king, part of this year's Top Art tour

Printmaking

Cover art by Iris Marshall, Wellington High

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