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FREDDIE TIMMS 1946 - 2017 Pikarli (triptych), 2010 ochre on canvas 120 x 270 cm (overall); 120 x 90 cm (each panel) inscribed verso: Red Rock Arts, 120 x 90, KP2278, KP2279, KP2280, Freddy Timms, 02.10 PROVENANCE Red Rock Art, WA Cat No. KP2778/79/80 Knight Fine Art, Vic The Collection of Harold Mitchell AO, Vic accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Knight Fine Art Freddie Timms was a senior Gija artist from the East Kimberley, born in 1946 at Police Hole on Bedford Downs Station. After working as a stockman across the region, he settled at Frog Hollow near Warmun and began painting in 1986, encouraged by Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie. His paintings are recognised for their aerial perspective and cartographic clarity, broad fields of colour intersected by precise boundary lines that map both Country and story. In Pikarli, Timms renders the East Kimberley landscape as a sequence of interlocking panels that evoke movement through Country. The triptych form mirrors the rhythm of travel, with watercourses and ancestral paths linking each section. His restrained palette of ochres, whites, and blacks captures the tonal subtleties of the land, while the structure reflects the the translation of Gija knowledge. Both contemporary and deeply cultural, Pikarli embodies Timms' commitment to preserving Gija history through painting, a practice of visual storytelling that merges ancestral memory with modern form. This work comes from the Collection of Harold Mitchell AO, one of Australia's foremost private collectors of Aboriginal art. Mitchell's collection celebrates the breadth of Indigenous artistic innovation, from the early masters of the Kimberley and Central Desert to the contemporary movements that followed. Within this context, Timms' Pikarli stands as a bridge between the pioneering East Kimberley painters and a new generation of artists redefining the language of Country and belonging. @ FREDDIE TIMMS / Copyright Agency, 2025