Katy Buess

Invercargill-based print maker Katy Buess had always dreamt of volunteering abroad but felt she didn’t have any practical skills to offer. She took part in a VSA programme in Vanuatu has informed her work, along with the  rewards and challenges of conducting an art-based rehabilitation programme in a local men’s prison.

Katy buess

T-shirts designed by prisoners in Port Vila as part of the art programme conducted by Katy Buess.

Work by one of the men in the programme.

Bluff Hill Salusalu, 2011, paper, paint, wire, glue, flax and shellac, by Katy Buess.

Laebri, 2011, woodcut/collage, by Katy Buess.

Lapita, 2011, woodcut/monoprint, by Katy Buess.

The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.