Tim Winmar
ABOUT TIM:
CULTURAL HERITAGE:
Balladong (Nyungar Aboriginal Man)
BACKGROUND:
Tim started drawing and painting when he was 15 years old. He participated in high school art, and then took it up again when he was 17, at Southwest College where he completed a Certificate in Indigenous Art. Tim enjoys art as he feels it “brings him back to earth” and keeps him in touch with nature. When he is drawing or sketching, he likes to represent objects as they are in reality, but when he is painting he likes to explore more abstract themes.
Tim uses the Avon River in many of his works. His family are originally from the Kellerberrin in the Wheat Belt area and he moved to Kwinana. When he arrived in Perth, he travelled along the Avon River, and for him it represents the journey that he took to get here.
One of his favourite artists is Rover Thomas as he likes the simplicity of the work, and that it has deep meaning behind it. In the past, he has completed a Kwinana series of aerial landscapes of the area he is from, which were bought by the Education Department of Peel District Council in Mandurah. It was a set of three of which two were most abstract and were purchased by the council.
Tim has recently joined the course at Kidogo Art Institute. He has been working on Ochres with acrylic mediums and this is something he has never done before and is finding it interesting. These new works will form a part of his application for the Maars Moorditj Exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS:
1997 Town of Kwinana Exhibition, Kwinana
2006 Murdoch University Library, Murdoch University
2007 Murdoch University library, Murdoch University