Freddie Timms spent his childhood at Bow River and Lissadell Stations where he worked as a stockman, handyman and fencer. He left Lissadell Station in 1985 and settled at the new community at Warmun where he began to paint, influenced by elders including Rover Thomas and Hector Jandanay.

Freddie Timms has become known for aerial map-like visions of country that are less concerned with ancestral associations as with tracing the responses and refuges of the Gidja people as they encountered the ruthlessness and brutality of colonisation. However, his political nature is characterized by more intimate interpretations of the experience rather than overtly political statements. In what appeared as a new and beautiful sense of irregular geometry, soft yet boldly defined blocks of colour depicted the area. The stark black color fields are contrasted by a more colourful palette than the natural earth pigments widely adopted by other East Kimberley artists.

Please note that all First Nations Art is created from a so called ‘Birds Eye’ view. This means that the artworks can be hung either horizontally as well as vertically.