Acting
Develop the practical skills and experience required to work in the performing arts as a stage and film actor, performing artist or performance maker.
- Actor
- Performer
- Performance maker
- Producer
Digital screen and media
Be a part of the next generation of Australian film makers and develop the skills you need to work across a variety of roles behind the scenes in radio, film, television, or interactive media.
- 3D animator
- Camera operator
- Lighting assistant
- Sound recordist
- Video editor
Fashion
Whether you want to unleash your creativity as a designer, dressmaker or milliner, or pursue a more technical job in textile production, grading, or patternmaking, we have a fashion course for you.
- Fashion designer
- Milliner
- Patternmaker
- Stylist
- Textile design
Floristry
Get the skills you need to work as a qualified florist in a range of businesses including retail floristry shops, studios, and online floristry businesses.
- Florist
- Florist designer
- Retail shop assistant
- Studio assistant
Graphic design
Develop the technical skills and experience required to work as a graphic designer in a variety of commercial contexts across both print and digital media.
- Digital artist
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Multimedia designer
- Web page designer
Games and interactive design
Be a part of the next generation of Australian games makers and media designers. Develop the skills you need to work across a variety of roles behind the scenes in design, illustration, development, software engineering, animator, and management.
- Games designer
- Interactive digital media developer
- Concept artist
- Animator/character animator
Music
Whether you want to be centre stage as a musician or vocalist, or work behind the scenes as a sound engineer, composer, or music manager, our courses can help turn your musical dreams into a reality.
- Composer
- Music manager
- Musician
- Singer-songwriter
- Sound engineer
Photography
Our photography and photo imaging courses can help you launch your photography career in portrait, wedding, commercial, documentary, editorial, landscape, or fashion photography.
- Commercial photographer
- Photographic developer
- Printmaker
- Professional photographer
Printing
The printing industry is one of the largest manufacturing industries in Australia and offers a range of different career opportunities including pre-press technician, print machinist, and screen printer.
- Digital print manager/publisher
- Pre-press technician
- Print finisher
- Print machinist
- Screen printer
Visual arts
With electives in painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, digital media technology, photo-media, ceramics, millinery, and fashion accessories, our visual arts courses can prepare you for whatever area of the visual arts industry you're interested in.
- Artist
- Digital media designer
- Painter
- Potter
- Sculptor
State-of-the-art creative facilities
News and events
A career in full bloom
Twenty-seven acres of floral mastery, over 150,000 visitors, and more than 17,500 cups of tea – the next Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show may still be two months away, but the event’s deputy operations manager Cody Gibson has his work cut out for him, already working hard to make it a success.
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Music student releases first pop single
Soon to make their foray onto the pop music scene, TAFE Queensland alumna Amira Talbot is one half of Australia's freshest all-female pop duo, Chasing Velvet. The Gold Coast pair are quirky, energetic, and have their sights firmly set on new horizons.
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Designer to the stars backs regional fashion courses
Following the graduation of the first class of students to study fashion at TAFE Queensland’s Gympie campus, a successful Australian designer has highlighted the opportunity for local fashion-lovers by voicing her support for the program.
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