Painting, Decorating and Plastering
Study Painting and Decorating at Melbourne Polytechnic and mix creativity with construction.
Jump to available coursesUtilize your creative flair with a career in painting and decorating
Melbourne Polytechnic’s courses help you build the skills for a flexible career that can take you anywhere.
Qualified painters play an essential role in the construction and manufacturing industry, adding the final decorative touches and providing a protective layer on buildings and other structures.
While studying at Melbourne Polytechnic, you’ll learn a wide range of skills including preparing surfaces, selecting, and matching colours, creating textured finishes, wallpapering and adding decorative finishes using stencils, graining, marbling, and more. You’ll be instructed by practicing painters in our purpose-built building barn, where you can enjoy a hands-on, practical learning approach.
Melbourne Polytechnic offers pre-apprenticeship courses as well as courses you can study while undertaking an apprenticeship.
Painting, Decorating and Plastering Courses
Certificate III in Painting and Decorating CPC30620
Own your own business or consultancy, or work as a contractor or for an employer in the building industry. A career as a painter and decorator will put to use your excellent hand-eye coordination and ability to work neatly and accurately. This hands-on course will give you the practical training you need to ensure you are an asset to any employer.
Certificate II in Building and Construction Pre-Apprenticeship - Painting and Decorating 22614VIC
Do you enjoy working with your hands and have an eye for colour? As a painter/decorator, you could chase the sun around Australia or the world to work wherever you want. This flexible career choice could lead to starting your own business.