Diploma in Arts and Design - Stone Carving

Explore your art and turn your Hard Stone and Jade Carving ability into a career in the real world with TPP’s New Zealand Diploma in Arts and Design level 5. You will develop and expand your skills while living on the majestic West Coast – New Zealand’s home of pounamu – drawing inspiration from your surrounding environment.

In 2020, TPP is introducing the level 5 NZ Diploma in Arts and Design – the programme offers all the same technical, artistic and commercial training that TPP is known for, under a national framework. It aims to further develop the stone carving and sculpture skills of students, at the same time as preparing them for the business of being a professional carver of jade, rock or other stone.

Graduates have mastered the ability to apply technical skills to their chosen design and art endeavours; they will be prepared for self-employment, 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.