KAPKAP LONG TINGTING BLONG MI
(‘Prize for best work under $1000’, Aspiring Art Prize 2011)
I am a Swiss/New Zealand artist, specializing in printmaking. In 1992 I graduated from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art with a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours). My art practice includes making artists books and occasionally I teach printmaking and bookbinding classes. I have also been commissioned to illustrate books and brochures. For most of my adult life I have worked part-time in libraries, and bookshops from Auckland to ZĪrich. My prints and artists books have been exhibited in New Zealand and internationally.
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Since returning to NZ in 2010 I have set up a print workshop in Southland.
Recent prints focus on Melanesian (primarily Vanuatuan) themes.
In 2008 and 2009 I was based in Vanuatu — working as an Art Programme Advisor for Correctional Services at the Stade Prison in Port Vila, through Volunteer Service Abroad, New Zealand. I also volunteered at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (National Library and National Museum) and at Olwi School in Blacksands, Port Vila.
GALLERIES: Gallery De Novo, Dunedin; The Gilded Leaf, Napier; Pataka Museum Shop, Porirua; Portobello Gallery, Dunedin; Riverton Arts Centre, Southland; Salamander Gallery, Christchurch; Somebody’s Darling Gallery & Design;
For those of you who thought the spelling of my name was Katie Buess, Katy Beuss or Katie Beuss (WRONG!) − congratulations on getting here.
Contemporary NZ printmaker, contemporary New Zealand printmaker, contemporary NZ printmaking, contemporary New Zealand printmaking. Invercargill artist, Invercargill printmaker, printmaking in Southland. Japanese woodblock inspired, German expressionist printmaking inspired, woodblocks, wood blocks woodcuts, wood cuts.
Vanuatu illustrations, Vanuatu drawings
