Balingup, Western Australia
Group Nyoongar
Born 1979, Perth, Western Australia
Lives and works Balingup, Western Australia
Ben Pushman is a Nyoongar artist and his people are of the Minang language group and originally from the areas around Denmark in the southwest of Western Australia.
The art of Ben Pushman is a remembrance of tribal law, for ritual, for rites of passage and for the strength of spirit given to those who continue to respect it. Within his works, Pushman tells of his experiences as an urban Aborigine and the inner conflicts he has had to deal with, such as loss and finding of identity.
One theme that runs through his work is about scarification, which marked the body of an initiated Nyoongar man and formed part of traditional Nyoongar visual language. Another is of the six Nyoongar seasons.
Collections:
Perth,Western Australia
Sydney, New South Wales
Derby, Western Australia
Kununurra, Western Australia