Timms' work is held in major collections including National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of WA, Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht. He also is exhibited in public and private collections internationally.
Collections
- Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne
- Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica CA, USA
- Artbank, Sydney
- Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
- The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
- The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Aboriginal Art Collection, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Awards and Recognition
2004 DVD 'Artists of the East Kimberley', At Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
2001 18th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2000 17th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1999 16th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1999 ABC TV 'Art from the Heart' produced by Richard Moore & Jeremy Eccles
1992 9th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1991 8th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1990 7th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 Freddie Timms, Melbourne Art Fair (Gould Galleries), Melbourne
2003 Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Sydney
2002 Freddie Timms, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Paintings, Gow Langford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1999 Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1998 My Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Earthworks, JGM Gallery, London
2017 JGM Gallery, London
2008 Last Tango at Wyndham, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2007 New Legend: Recent works from the Kimberley, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Prism: Contemporary Aust. Art, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Great Masters, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005 Interesting Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005 Beyond the Frontier, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004 Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2003 True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2003 Kelly Culture: Reconstructing Ned Kelly, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2003 Jirrawun Jazz, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2002 Blood on the Spinifex, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2002 Rhapsodies in Country, GrantPirrie at Art Miami, FL, USA
2002 Jirrawun Artists, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2002 My Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Four Men, Four Paintings, Raft Space, Darwin
2001 A Century of Collecting 1901-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney
2000 Landmark: Mirror Mark: Mal Nairn Auditorium, Northern Territory University, Darwin; Columbus State University, Georgia, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2000 Opening 2000, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Painting Country, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1999 My Country, Northern Territory University Gallery, Darwin
1998 Thousand Journeys: Aboriginal Art from North WA, touring galleries in Tamworth, Newcastle, Albury, Mornington Peninsula, Ballarat, Mildura
1998 The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1998 Freddie Timms, Ken Whisson, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1998 Jirrawun Aboriginal Artists, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1998 Jirrawun Artists from Crocodile Hole, Jemma Stowe, Perth
1998 Summer Exhibitions No 13, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997 Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997 Pallingjang-Saltwater, Wollogong City Gallery, Wollongong
1996 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
1996 Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris FIAC, Paris, France
1996 Utopia Art, Sydney
1995 Turkey Creek Artists, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1993 Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 ARATJARRA: Art of the first Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Koeln-Duesseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Louisiana Museum; Humlebaek, Denmark
1991 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1991 Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin
1990 Dreamtime Gallery, Perth
1989 Turkey Creek Recent Work, Deutscher, Melbourne