CATEGORY: Natural
TITLE: Underground Earth and Minerals
ARTFORM: Mineral collage
DESCRIPTION: This artwork is my original design using natural resources from underground
BIOGRAPHY: Bushy White was born in Broken Hill in 1943 and spent 26 years working on the local mines. Experiencing mining, comradeship with mates and being surrounded by the magnificent minerals that are only found, under the "Hill". Bushy uses these unique minerals to create artworks by crushing them up and applying them to a board using several types of glue. “I have been an artist for forty-six years and running the mining gallery for thirty-seven years, with over one thousand artworks of history made from the earth and minerals out of the mines.”
LOCATION: Whites Mineral Art and Mining Museum, 1 Allendale Street Broken Hill.
LOCATION: Whites Mineral Art & Living Museum 1 Allendale Street
TITLE: Reflections
ART FORM: Mixed media
MEDIUM: Pure Broken Hill crushed minerals
SIZE/DIMENSIONS: 57cm (w) x 66cm (h)
CATEGORY: Mirrors
DESCRIPTION: Reflections of blocks and squares vibrating through the earth. Bushy and his wife Betty have been running the museum for thirty-eight years. The museum is full of history with around one thousand mineral artworks and collections of handmade dolls and bears. The mineral artworks depict the history of Broken Hill but many other works are drawn from Bushy’s imagination, fuelled by his experiences as a miner working underground.
LOCATION: Whites Mineral Art & Living Museum 1 Allendale Street
TITLE: Driving Air Flow
ART FORM: Mixed media
MEDIUM: Pure Broken Hill crushed minerals
SIZE/DIMENSIONS: 79cm (h) x 110cm (w)
CATEGORY: Smoke
DESCRIPTION: This artwork expresses my experiences of the drives and off cuts underground and the different colours that come out of the earth of Broken Hill. In the air, underground, there is a flow and the flow in the artwork represents the drives.
Location:Whites Mineral Art & Living Mining Museum, 1 Allendale Street Broken Hill
Category: Natural Environment
‘Sticks in the Mist’
The venue offers an underground experience (without going under) depicting mining equipment from the past to present, the legend of Sturt’s Desert Pea, and crushed mineral collage artworks of local historical buildings and landscapes.
Kevin 'Bushy' White has been making his art for 45 years. Through his art he recreates the history of the city, its buildings, churches and pubs. He’s been making his own designs and creative artwork for over 15 years for the general public to purchase.
"I am inspired by the landscape of Broken Hill and use pure Broken Hill minerals such as lead, zinc silver, rhodenite, quartz, calcites, Azurite, Malachite and many other minerals ‘Sticks in the Mist’ is an artwork drawn from my imagination, inspired by the bushes, trees and rocks outside on the flat opposite my place."
Art Form:
2D mixed media
Medium:
local Broken Hill
Minerals on Board
Size / Dimensions:
3ft x 2ft 6”