Currently there’s a focus on climate change and one of the standout pieces reflecting this is by Ballarat Grammar student, Nicholas Gilbert. The perennial concern in Top Arts is the environment.
When asked if the topics young people were engaging with have changed since he began at the NGV, Menzies says, “Artists will always ponder the issues and concerns of their day. He has watched the exhibition evolve and views it as a “litmus test of how the world is going.” This year is the 25th anniversary of Top Arts at the National Gallery of Victoria and NGV educator and Top Arts curator David Menzies has been at the helm for 11 years. However, as a long running annual exhibition series, these student exhibitions are also a well-documented visual marker of nationwide social and political change, intimately engaging the current concerns of young people. Since their inception, the primary role of Year 12 art exhibitions has been to celebrate academic excellence and serve as an accessible educational tool for prospective high school art students. Featured in Pulse Perspectives 2019 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Julius Yu, Cavity, 2018, oil on board, painted wooden dowels, acrylic sheets, nails, plywood. Most continue on to tour regional galleries, while smaller art venues hold additional Year 12 art shows of their own.
Each state and territory in Australia hosts its own version of these exhibitions, and in the metropolitan centres the current range includes: Top Arts (Vic), ARTEXPRESS (NSW), Pulse Perspectives (WA), ArtRage (Tas), Exit Art(NT), SACE Art Show(SA), Step into the Limelight (ACT) and Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Arts (Qld). Featured in Art Rage 2019 at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania.įar from being a clunky display of papier-mâché heads and oil paintings of flowers, the contemporary Year 12 art exhibition incorporates multiple artforms produced with impressive technical skill. Terry Boots, Untitled, oil and acrylic on cardboard. Featured in Top Arts, 2019, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Aretha Brown, Time is on our side, you mob, 2018 gouache, pencil, synthetic polymer paint, fibre-tipped pens, spray paint and gloss spray 1105.0 x 1980.0 mm, Williamstown High School, Williamstown © Aretha Brown. Jack Strohfeldt, Evolution, 2018. Featured in Exit Art, at the Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, 2019. Lauren Hazelbroek, Knit me together in my mother’s womb, 2018, wire, wood, glass, fishing line, 28 x 39 x 18cm. Featured in Pulse Perspectives 2019 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Featured in Top Arts 2019 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Isabel Unwin, Felt (past tense of ‘Feel’), 2018, recycled coat and pants, wool, felt tulle, beads, press studs, cotton thread 700.0 x 1750.0 x 350.0 mm Ballarat Grammar, Wendouree © Isabel Unwin.
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Jessica O’Donnell, Biomorphic, 2018, featured in ARTEXPRESS 2019.
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