Dale Frank

During a career spanning three decades, Dale Frank has worked with multiple mediums including installation, film, sculpture and painting. Most recently he has been spending a considerable amount of time experimenting with painting.

Entering Dale Frank’s solo exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong was comparable to stepping into a parallel universe where shapes are distorted and luminescent colors reign supreme. It was an alienating yet simultaneously engaging experience that clearly exemplified Frank’s own philosophy toward distancing himself from his works. Once...

January is usually a relatively quiet month for art in Hong Kong but not so at Pearl Lam’s eponymous Pedder Street gallery where the local gallerist is showing a solo exhibition of 16 works by artist Dale Frank. One of the Australia’s most successful international artists, Frank is renowned for his manipulation of wildly different materials...

A sculpture in the bathtub, a horse on the couch and a disco in the loo are just some of the ways artworks have been exhibited at what is emerging as Melbourne’s most exciting art fair. The Hotel Windsor is, once again, about to be transformed by SPRING 1883, a high-end contemporary art show to be held as part of Melbourne’s Art...

Exploring the idea of memory recollection, Paul Moorhouse, curator of 20th-century art at London’s National Portrait Gallery, drew together six international artists for Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory,  currently showing at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong. Moorhouse’s curatorial...

Looking at big, bold abstract paintings, it’s hard these days not to think of zombie formalism – the kind of abstract art in which novelty is often mistaken for originality. In Dale Frank’s latest exhibition, SABCO PEROXIDE, the 57-year-old artist wears the pejorative attributes of this kind of abstraction as a badge of honour....

In a move that both marks his maturity as an art curator and flips the bird to those prophesying the death of the bricks-and-mortar white cube, Geoff Newton opened a second Neon Parc gallery in Melbourne and slammed the naysayers. “If you start to pander to the whims of the market, either your business will be contracted and dulled by...