Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts

The Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts (PGDipFA) gives you the opportunity to integrate studio practice with critical studies. The PGDipFA is open to anyone with a university degree who also has some relevant professional or industry experience. The diploma offers people who have established careers in the creative sector the chance to extend, refresh and diversify their artistic skill set. Students will bring their diverse experiences into the studio environment. This diploma is suitable and relevant to people using their practice as part of their working life, eg. teachers, artists, designers, writers, community thinkers and civic creative specialists. You have an opportunity to learn new skills in supportive energetic studio setting and be a contributor to New Zealand's pre-eminent, postgraduate Fine Arts environment.

The PGDipFA takes two semesters to complete full time.

Students are encouraged to develop their own practice to an advanced level by working in a studio environment that's supported by contextual study and workshop courses designed to develop new ways of making.

The first semester involves a discipline specific focus that is then followed by a second semester where students combine study into research methodologies with a larger individual studio project.

Learn more about the postgraduate Fine Arts courses.