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Don't just play, watch and dream. Create and innovate. Be part of Australia's tech-hub of the future.

Express yourself and unleash your creativity upon the world with a career in art. Our award-winning TAFE NSW teachers will help you refine your creative abilities, and guide you in your chosen medium, providing practical training in our purpose-built studios and galleries.

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Art isn't only about creating. It's also about displaying, curating, restoring, communicating, management. Be a part of the most beautiful industry.

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Take a material like clay, add creativity, imagination and science, and spin yourself a career. Diploma level courses suit students with prior experience in the field of ceramics.

Channel your passion and use your natural creative talent to have a rewarding and fulfilling career. Design courses at TAFE NSW and our talented teachers will foster your artistic gifts and develop your design skills and techniques to set you up for a successful career.

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We'll help you to channel your creativity while practising your skills as a designer for events and live productions, such as the theatre, festivals and exhibitions.

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Refine your existing design skills or start with the basics and open up a huge range of graphic design careers in everything from magazines to logos to art direction.

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Apply design principles and skills to what is crucial in our lives: the spaces in which we live, work and play in. Interior design and decoration embraces everything from people skills to colour theory.

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If you have a combination of creative and technical skills, you could become a part of this lucrative and rewarding industry.

Start with a creative process, understand consumers and processes, and end up with an innovative product.

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Visual merchandising is all about planning and installing displays that promote goods or services. It combines artistic, creative and sales skills.

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It's never too late to learn

"It's been interesting to see how art is being taught in Australia at a basic level and to think about how I could teach. It's been a very supportive environment and it’s given me the opportunity to expand as an artist."
Aisha, TAFE NSW student

Internationally-renowned Taiwanese glass and ceramic artist and mature-aged student Tai Chiu Mei (Aisha), says TAFE NSW gave her tools to grow as an artist.

Aisha moved to Australia to live in the Nambucca Valley with her husband, a wrought-iron artist. She completed a Certificate I in Spoken and Written English at TAFE NSW to develop her English-language skills.

"I wanted to learn more English and to meet people in my new community. What has also happened, is that I have found a new medium and I’m experimenting working with felt. I have really enjoyed coming into the classroom again and learning new skills in art."

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What job opportunities could a fine arts or design course lead to?

A fine arts or design course can lead to a number of job opportunities, from curating art exhibitions and styling commercial interiors to breaking boundaries in digital media and game design.

Qualifications in art and design can lead to a job as an interior designer, animator, graphic designer, web designer or game designer. The average weekly salary for an interior designer is $1,057.

Whether you're just starting out in your art and design career, want to gain more qualifications, add to your previous experience, or simply broaden your horizons, TAFE NSW offers a wide variety of courses at a number of levels to suit you. TAFE courses in the area include Design, Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Interactive Digital Media, Screen and Media, Art Administration and Digital and Interactive Games.