Explore your art and turn your hardstone and jade carving ability into a career in the real world with TPP’s New Zealand Diploma in Arts and Design (Level 5). Graduates will master the ability to apply technical skills to their chosen design and art endeavours; they will be prepared for self-employment by creating unique designs suitable for production, employment in industry and/or higher level study and personal exploration. Graduates will produce unique creative works of art for exhibition or commission, completing various design and carving projects based given or agreed briefs. The NZ Diploma aims to help you develop the creative design process and enhance your artistic interpretation of hard stone and jade carving.

Graduates of this programme will be able to:

Apply broad knowledge, and practical conceptual skills in the production of arts, crafts and/or design work
Use investigative tools with creative processes, methods and technologies to develop responses to a brief and solve problems
Use research to support the development of ideas and to inform own work within conventions and contexts in arts, craft and or/design
Critique own work and the work of others communicate in a range of situations, and present own resolved work in simulated contexts
Apply professional practices to manage projects/briefs within defined guidelines, and select potential education and employment pathways in arts, craft and/or design.