ARTEXPRESS 2025 At The Art Gallery of New South Wales
ARTEXPRESS—at the Art Gallery of New South Wales—is back for 2025. The dynamic and diverse selection of artwork celebrates the next wave of incredibly talented HSC art students.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Edwards
In an instant (detail) by Mimi Taylor, from Denison College of Secondary Education Bathurst High Campus. Main banner image: A mosaic of moments by Mitchell Coles from Cranbrook School.
Sonder luminescence (detail) by Fatima Tayyab, from St Marys Senior High School.
Moral decay (detail) by Emily Lee, from Merewether High School.
The sanctity of stillness (detail) by Jasmine Miller, from Brigidine College Randwick.
Only six streets in Cowan, small world paintings (detail) by Charlie Dexter Maher, from Asquith Boys High School.
“ARTEXPRESS 2025 presents work by students from vastly different regions, schools and cultural backgrounds, who are united in their shared passion for visual arts, which has been nurtured by their dedicated teachers.”
μιας (Ones) (detail) by Mia Tzannes, from Willoughby Girls High School.
Lost fowls (detail) by Lucas Giraldo, from Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus
The incredibly popular ARTEXPRESS returns to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, showcasing outstanding artworks submitted by students across New South Wales for the art-making component of the Higher School Certificate (HSC) examination in Visual Arts.
ARTEXPRESS 2025 shines a light on the topics currently concerning young Australians—revealing themes of family, identity, cultural heritage, and high school experiences, as well as exploring social and political issues such as immigration, class and the environment, by a selection of HSC students who have developed technical excellence in a wide variety of mediums.
In its 42nd year, this year’s annual exhibition features 50 works selected from a staggering 8858 submissions for the 2024 HSC examination in Visual Arts, including students from both government and non-government schools in regional, remote and metropolitan areas.
All of the works are part of the HSC Visual Arts curriculum—featuring ceramics, designed objects, documented forms, drawing, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and fibre and time-based forms.
‘ARTEXPRESS 2025 presents work by students from vastly different regions, schools and cultural backgrounds, who are united in their shared passion for visual arts, which has been nurtured by their dedicated teachers. The outstanding conceptual and material qualities of these works affirms the strength of visual arts education across the state. I commend every student in this exhibition for their dedication to their chosen form of art practice and I hope they continue to engage with art beyond their schooling,’ said Art Gallery of New South Wales director, Michael Brand.
ARTEXPRESS 2025 is on display in Naala Nura at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from Thursday 6 February to Sunday 27 April, 2025. Entry is free.