Freddie Timms
Jirrawun Arts, Wyndham
Director, Kimberley Region
Qualifications & Achievements
ANKAAA Director (2004 - 2006, then since 2010)
Founding Member, Jirrawun Arts, East Kimberley (1994)
President, Jirrawun Arts, East Kimberley
Senior Kimberley Elder and Artist
Freddie Timms, a senior and internationally renowned Gija artist and president of Jirrawun Arts, has held positions on the ANKAAA board over many years.
Born in 1946 at Police Hole on Bedford Downs station, Timms grew up on Lissadel Station and worked as a stockman on stations in the East Kimberley for 14 years. He eventually settled at Frog Hollow (near Warrmarn/Turkey Creek) in the East Kimberley, a small community set up by his brother-in-law Jack Britten, and lived there for 40 years.
With then gallery owner Tony Oliver, Timms founded Jirrawun Arts, a leading Art Centre in Wyndham in the East Kimberley region of WA in 1994 as an independent business initially representing a small group of six leading Gija artists. Freddie worked with Rover Thomas and other first generation Warrmarn (Warmun) artists and danced in early performances of Rover Thomas' Gurirr Gurirr ceremony.
Timms' work is represented in all major collections in Australia and has been shown internationally in Germany (Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Koln, 1993), Tokyo, Chicago (Art Chicago, 1996), Paris (Baudoin Lenbon, FAIC, 1996), Auckland (Gow Langford Gallery, 1999-2000) and Miami (GrantPirrie at Art Miami USA - Rhapsodies in Country, 2002). He was one of only four Aboriginal artists represented in A Century of Collecting 1901 - 2001, held at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, in 2001.
Solo exhibitions
2011 Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
2004 Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Melbourne
2003 Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Sydney
2002 Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Paintings, Gow Langford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1998 My Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Jirrawun Artists, William Mora Galleries in Association with Jirrawun Arts, Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Melbourne
2005 Jirrawun in the House - A Contemporary Experience from the East Kimberley, Parliament House, Canberra
Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, SydneyBeyond the Frontier, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004 Terra Alterius - Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2003 True Stories - Art of the East Kimberley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Blood on the Spinifex, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Rhapsodies in Country, GrantPirrie at Art Miami, Miama, USA
2001 Four Men, Four Paintings, Raft Artspace Darwin
Ochre, Short Street Gallery, Broome A Century of Collecting 1901 - 2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney
1999 – 2000 Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney
1999 My Country, Northern Territory University Gallery, Darwin
1998 Freddie Timms, Ken Whisson: Landscape Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997 Pallingjang-Saltwater, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
1996 Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
1993 Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley - 1993-94, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales; Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales; Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, Western Australia; Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales; Laverty Collection; Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; UBS Bank, Melbourne, Victoria.
Languages Spoken:
Gija, Mirrawong, Gadjurong, Jaru, Kimberley Kriol and English
