Each year NZQA selects the very best Year 13 work from around the country across the five strands of the visual arts curriculum – Painting, Photography, Design, Sculpture and Printmaking – and creates an exhibition called Top Art.

Top Art is open to the public in Wellington until early March and then tours around New Zealand.

This year double Scholarship winner, Nicole Tretyakova, was advised that her Design work had been chosen for the exhibition. Nicole, her teacher Ms Nicole Botherway and Mrs Hume travelled to Wellington for the launch of the exhibition. To be one of the Year 13 students to have work chosen for public display is a great achievement. Congratulations to Nicole and to her teacher Ms Nicole Botherway. We are very proud of your achievements.

Anyone interested in viewing the exhibition will be able to visit it at the University of Canterbury in the first week of July.