Press Release

When form becomes content, when painting is about painting, distinct material specificities start to matter less and less. Marks and words are meant only to stir some general, formal affect; they do not cavort with our surprisingly emotional responses to the peculiarities of the material world by trying to represent it. Every slick plastic surface will only reflect us back at ourselves, promising a superficial agency in completing the image yet impenetrably rebounding any attempt at interpretation. These formalist paintings, hermetically obsessed with themselves, duly mirror our own narcissistic fantasies. They leave us abandoned, safe in the inertia of our own company, transfixed by our reflection in a petrifying pool of resin.

–Colm Guo-lin Peare, ‘Dale Frank’, Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press Limited, 2026.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Dale Frank, Chicken Soup, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (17 April–16 May 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
About the Artist

Dale Frank is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary painters. His career spans over thirty years. In 1983, he was included in the exhibition, Panorama della post - critica: critica ed arte at the Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa along with Thomas Lawson and Anselm Kiefer (curated by Helena Kontova). In 1984 he was included in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale. Returning to Australia, in 1990 he was included in the 8th Biennale of Sydney (curated by Rene Block).

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About the Gallery

Established in Sydney by influential Australian art dealer and gallerist Roslyn Oxley and her husband Tony Oxley in 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is one of Australia’s leading commercial galleries.

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