Freddie Timms

Freddie Timms "My country" Cat No. 1649 Size = 89 x 124 cm. Ochres on linen

Freddie Timms "My country" Cat No. 1654 Size = 90 x 120 cm. Ochres on Linen

Freddie Timms "My country" Cat No. 1653 Size = 75 x 100 cm. Ochres on linen

Freddie Timms "Joel Springs" Cat No. 1745 Size = 60 x 120 cm. Ochres on Linen

Freddie Timms

Also Known As: Ngarrmaliny, Gnarrmaliny 
Alternative Spelling: Ngudmulling, Ngarrlanaliny 


Born:       	1944 
State:      	WA 
Region:     	East Kimberley Community: Warmun [Turkey Creek] 
Art centre: 	Waringarri Aboriginal Arts 
Outstation: 	n/a 
Language: 	Gidja 
Social Affiliation: 	Janama subsection 

Medium: 	Painting, ochres on canvas, ochres and gum resin fixative 
          on canvas. 
Subjects: 
Minimalist 'aerial' / map view, large rounded blocks of colour. 
Lake Argyle/Ord river area stories, Argyle Diamond Mine country, 
Bulunyin country, Barungi country. Turkey Creek School. 


Collections:
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands. 
Adelaide City Council, Adelaide, SA. 
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne. 
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A. 


Exhibitions:
1993-> 94 - ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: 
Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, 
London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. 
1993 - Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National 
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 
1992 - The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum 
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 
1991 - The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum 
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 
1990 - The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum 
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 
1989 - Turkey Creek: Recent Work, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne. 


Select Bibliography:
Ryan, J., 1993, Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, 
exhib, cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 

1993, Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and 
Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, 
exhib. cat. (conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration 
with Gary Lee), Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln. (C) 

Georgeff, Simon, "Drawing the line". The Sunday Age, 23 August 1998, 
Agenda p 16 McDonald, John, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 1998. 



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Notes:
Freddie was born at Police Hole, Bedford Downs Station in 1944.  
He was a stockman and worked on many stations in the East Kimberley, 
in particular Bow River Station which was granted by the Government 
to the Timms Family, with Freddie's uncle the late Timmy Timms as 
Chairperson.

Freddie painted with the best - Rover Thomas, Jack Britten, Paddy 
Jampinji, Henry Wambini, Churchill Cann.  He has participated 
in numerous Group and Solo Exhibitions and his paintings have been 
collected/acquired by the most notable Galleries and Collectors 
both in Australia and overseas.

He travels frequently to attend Exhibitions within Australia, and 
lives between Kununurra and Frog Hollow Community to the south, 
with his wife Beryline Mung.

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