Dress up or stay casual and enjoy time with your friends at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. 

Top Arts After Hours is an event offering an exclusive viewing of Top Arts 2023, live music, an artist-led workshop and the opportunity to meet the artists. This event is for teens and the Top Arts artists and their friends and family. 

Light refreshments will be provided.

Please note, bookings are essential as capacity is limited. 

Top Arts 2023  

Gain insight into the passions and interests of young artists from schools across Victoria in the annual Top Arts exhibition. Top Arts 2023 showcases extraordinary works of art and folios that achieved outstanding results in VCE Art or VCE Studio Arts. Be inspired by the artists’ creative processes, skillful use of materials, and imaginative development of ideas.  

For more information see the Top Arts 2023 website >   

5.30 & 6.30pm | Impasto Painting with Troy Emery
Artist Troy Emery lives and works in Melbourne. His art practice combines sculpture, painting and drawing. He primarily works with textiles such as pompoms, yarn, tinsel and tassels to adorn figurative forms that explore ideas about humankind’s relationships with animals. In this workshop Troy will share his textural painting technique using palette knives and acrylic paints. This is a 45 minute, drop-by workshop with a capacity limited to 15 participants, so you’ll need to arrive early to secure a place!

5.30 – 7.30pm | DJ set by C000kie 
c000kie is an Australian-born, Chilean Mauritian artist known for her gritty sound. Her music takes listeners on a journey through dark jungle, ambient drum and bass, nostalgic ghetto tech and speed garage. c000kie is passionate about creating unforgettable sets that make space for listeners to experience her sweet, and soulful side that clashes with her raw, unfiltered passion for bass, breaks and anything 808.

5.30 – 6.15pm & 6.45 – 7.15pm | Top Arts Student Interviews
Watch exhibiting students talk about their work, ideas and inspiration in this special screening in Community Hall.

6 – 6.45pm | Top Arts Artist Talk with NGV Teen Council 
Meet a Top Arts 2023 artist, hear about their inspirations and where they are now in this discussion facilitated by Top Arts 2023 Curator, John Parkinson & NGV Teen Council.