DALE FRANK

b. 1959, Australia

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Dale Frank Biography

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).

A major solo retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2000. Frank was included in the important recent survey exhibition, Contemporary Australia: Optimism at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art in 2008.

His paintings are held in every major public collection in Australia and in numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, Europe and the U.S.

In 2005 Frank won The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. A major new Somonograph on Frank’s work: So Far: the Art of Dale Frank 2005-1980 was published in 2007.

Frank was selected for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, curated by David Elliott.

Dale Frank has been exhibiting with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.

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His loneliness suffocated the space around him but his anger towards himself provided him with just enough of the air he needed to share by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank His loneliness suffocated the space around him, but his anger towards himself provided him with just enough of the air he needed to share, 2025 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
150 x 200 cm
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His isolating yet increasingly ever more complex dawn fantasies where in fact his barometer check in on reality to form up his constant thoughts throughout the day enough to wander and wonder in his glass like life reflecting only his constant misunderstandings by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media

Dale Frank His isolating yet increasingly ever more complex dawn fantasies where in fact his barometer check in on reality, to form up his constant thoughts throughout the day, enough to wander and wonder in his glass like life reflecting only his constant misunderstandings, 2025 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 180 cm
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He hated everyone in his share house as if proximity demanded emotional closeness but he found the best way for it to work was as if each owed him a lot of cash with interest a specialised personal interest paid weekly by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting

Dale Frank He hated everyone in his share house, as if proximity demanded emotional closeness, but he found the best way for it to work was as if each owed him a lot of cash, with interest, a specialised personal interest paid weekly, 2026 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 180 cm
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He worried that he might forget himself a lapse in reality obeying what others think is right and to reach out to run his hand over the shape of the imagined possibility he hungered for by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank He worried that he might forget himself, a lapse in reality, obeying what others think is right, and to reach out to run his hand over the shape of the imagined possibility he hungered for, 2026 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 180 cm
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He worried that he might forget himself his thoughts might jump out with the ability to speak aloud with a mind of their own and a nastiness trace his searching stare to caress her outline under her clothes by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank He worried that he might forget himself, his thoughts might jump out with the ability to speak aloud, with a mind of their own, and a nastiness, trace his searching stare to caress her outline under her clothes, 2026 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 180 cm
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His eyes collided side to side in a dance floor disco embrace his receding dick shuddered up and down his exhausted breast strained his sinuous muscles sagging balloons like an old ladies underarm flab the vanilla cream filling of his life licked off by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank His eyes collided side to side in a dance floor disco embrace, his receding dick shuddered up and down, his exhausted breast strained, his sinuous muscles sagging balloons like an old ladies underarm flab, the vanilla cream filling of his life licked off, 2026 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 180 cm
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He always thought from the little that he knew that this was enough to make him confident that he was doing the right thing by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank He always thought from the little that he knew that this was enough to make him confident that he was doing the right thing, 2025 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm
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Lighter the sun slowly rose really blinding blackening their mood by Dale Frank contemporary artwork mixed media painting

Dale Frank Lighter the sun slowly rose really blinding, blackening their mood, 2026 Colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm
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Contemporary art exhibition Dale Frank Chicken Soup at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney Australia

Dale Frank Chicken Soup Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 17 April–16 May 2026
Sydney

Contemporary art exhibition Dale Frank Alicias thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney Australia

Dale Frank Alicia’s thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 13 June–6 July 2024
Sydney

Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition The First 40 Years at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney Australia

Group Exhibition The First 40 Years Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 10 February–2 March 2024
Sydney

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