If you're looking for a career where your creative flair can shine, this industry area can be very rewarding and fulfilling. Offering a wide range of areas that you can specialise in including interior design, drawing, fashion design, printing and graphic arts, jewellery manufacturing, visual arts, music, floristry, and film and photography, the creative industries offer something for everyone.
Many of these qualifications and courses are delivered by practising artists, designers and craftspeople with excellent studios and facilities, offering you hands-on experience in both theory and practical skills. Specialist qualifications include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural arts, and multimedia game development.
Whether you want to launch your creative idea into a new business venture, get into the music business or fine tune your design skills, there's a qualification or course just for you.
Fee free and low fee training
How about a fee free training course — yes... free! You can also choose from a range of low fee qualifications with course fees reduced by half or more, or new free skill sets — fast track training to get you job ready.
Whether you're looking for a job, thinking about a career change, or upskilling for your own development, now's the time to get the skills you need.
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This is an exciting industry area that offers a huge range of training options. Use the course search below to find out more.
Use the filters to find fee free or low fee courses and skill sets. You can also use the keyword search, and the other filters, to refine the search results. Then select a qualification or course title from the list, to find out more about the course and where it is available.
The list presented here is only for this industry category.
If you dream of working in film, television, advertorial or digital media creating amazing looks and special effects with your makeup skills, this is the course for you! This qualification is the highest in Australia for this field — exactly what you need to get that dream job in this competitive industry as a specialist makeup artist and/or wig and hair stylist.
This qualification will provide you with developed skills and knowledge across many media including ceramics, digital art, glasswork, drawing and illustration, jewellery making, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textile design and wood design. If you're serious about a professional career as an artist, this is the course for you!
If you're ready to take the next step in your jewellery design career, the Diploma of Visual Arts (Jewellery Design) will build on your existing design and fabrication skills with new techniques and high level design abilities.
With this training, you'll be able to develop your design skills and knowledge through hands on projects where you get to take your ideas all the way from concept to prototype.
If you're considering a career as a professional graphic designer, but would like a head start to find employment, this short course skill set is for you!
