13 March 2026

Top Arts recognises the best art created by VCE students annually. In 2026, three students from two Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) schools are exhibiting their work in the iconic NGV Ian Potter Centre.

This year’s selection of 2025 student art highlights ‘increasingly innovative use of materials and techniques’, and the three MACS students’ works exemplify a confident and unique creativity across multiple mediums.

Padua College, Mornington

Fyonn Munro, Unravelled (ceramic sculpture)

Fyonn’s ceramic sculpture explores the relationship between physical pain and mental anguish associated with unseen chronic illness. Through raw textures and an unravelling form, the work conveys vulnerability, resilience, and the complex connection between mind and body.

St Monica’s College, Epping

Proud teachers from St Monica’s College credit Sophie and Amelia with ‘dedication, creativity and commitment throughout their studies’, and are very proud of how their achievements reinforce the school’s reputation for excellence in education and the arts.

Sophie Igbinovia, The Woods between the Worlds (oil pastel and coloured pencil on paper)

This artwork explores the ‘experience of growing up, and the sometimes overwhelming nature of trying to understand and know myself as an ever-changing and ever-growing person, that has inspired The Woods between the Worlds’.

Amelia Pezzimenti, The Story between Us (charcoal, coloured pencil and ink on paper)

This work ‘explores the enduring bond between my grandparents, revealing how love, resilience, faith, and a shared history of memory and migration shape their connection and sense of identity’.

Top Arts 2026 runs from Friday 13 March to Sunday 19 July at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square.