Freddie Timms

Age : 58 years Language : Kija Sub Section : Janama

Freddie Timms, was given the bush name, Gnarrmaliny, after the place he was born, which is also known as Police Hole, on the vast East Kimberley Cattle Station, Bedford Downs. Growing up on the busy property, he learned all the necessary riding and stock handling skills at an early age. As a young man, he contract-mustered on most of the surrounding pastoral leases, including Bow River, Lissadell, Mabel Downs, Old Argyle, Texas Downs. After the stockmen’s pay dispute in the seventies, which resulted in the removal of most of the people from their homelands, he was placed first in the Guda-Guda Community at Wyndham, after which, he and family were relocated to Turkey Creek / Warmun. Today, he and artist wife Beryline Mung, live at the tiny community of Frog Hollow where he enjoys the peace and quiet as he paints his stories. He started painting about twelve years ago, using the knowledge and techniques that he had acquired by co-existing with the other stockmen / artists such as Jack Britten, Hector Tjandany, Henry Wambini, the late Rover Thomas and his own father-in-law, George Mung, who, with Paddy Jampinji, were the finest of the earlier Warmun / Turkey Creek painters. 

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