Over the past eleven years MGA has celebrated the work of emerging photomedia artists with the annual TOPshots award and exhibition. TOPshots showcases artwork produced by students studying the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) subjects of Art, Media and Studio Arts and the International Baccalaureate (IB) Visual Arts. Each of these subjects has a different focus within the broader course of arts education offered to Victorian secondary school students, making the TOPshots exhibition an exciting overview of different creative trajectories.
The artworks displayed in this exhibition offer little more than a glimpse of the year-long course of study each of these young artists has undertaken. It would be remiss not to mention the laborious nature of each of these subjects and the hours spent testing, refining and creating final folio pieces and documenting creative processes in visual diaries.
MGA is proud to have the opportunity to acknowledge the excellence of young photomedia artists in our community, and welcome our visitors to take inspiration from the creative potential that TOPshots 2018-19 represents.
Artists:
Sophie Altmann Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School
Theresa Avice Avila College
Indigo-Rose Danes Vermont Secondary College
Alanna Del Vecchio Caulfield Grammar School
Matilda Foley Toorak College
Sophie Grigarius Toorak College
Sarah Hordern Princes Hill Secondary College
Pepper Horman Wesley College SKR
Mason King Whitefriars College
Patrick McCormick Marcellin College
Zara Nazikian Vermont Secondary College
Ian Neo St Andrews Christian College
Lachie Pratt Yarra Valley Grammar
Courtney Thompson Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School
