Frieddie Timms was born in 1946 at Police Hole. He began painting in 1986, inspired by the elder artists already painting at Frog Hollow, a small outstation attached to the community at Warmun, Turkey Creek. Before that, he followed his father’s footsteps, becoming a stockman at Lissadell Station. It was during this time that he met and worked alongside Rover Thomas who was to have a lasting influence on him. While in the company of elder artists such as Rover Thomas and Hector Jandanay, who were already painting and achieving notoriety at this time, Timms requested art materials from Joel Smoker, the first art coordinator at Waringarri Arts in Kununurra. In a career that spanned more than 20 years, Freddy 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. His first exhibition held at Deutscher Gertrude Street Gallery in Melbourne in 1989 was received with critical acclaim and included a superb masterpiece, “Mandangala, North Turkey Creek 1990”. Another work, “Whitefella-Blackfella”, acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, overtly states the position of Aboriginal people in Australian society, placing ‘whitefella’ figures at the top, beneath which are painted Chinamen, then African and then finally 'blackfella right down at the bottom'. Having firmly established his reputation in the wider art world he produced works of consistently high quality since that time. His was a unique Gidja perspective on the history of white interaction with his people.