DALE LEONARD FRANK

Dale Frank - Fat Chicks

AKA: Dale Frank

Born: 1959 Singleton, New South Wales

• Abstract
• Contemporary
• Drawings
• Film Maker
• Painter
• Sculptor
• Known
• Established

Dale Frank - Home Sweet Home

In 1975, the 16 year old Dale Frank was awarded the Red Cross Art Award for painting by John Olsen. His first solo exhibition took place 5 years later.

The Australian art scene eagerly embraced Frank’s vision. He enjoyed both commercial success and curatorial and critical acclaim. In 1982 he was included in the 4th Biennale of Sydney, and in 1983 his work was selected for show at Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa, Italy. A year which also saw his work featured at Melbourne University gallery and in Perspecta ’83 at the Art Gallery of NSW. Frank achieved an enviable reputation on the international stage by his inclusion in Australian Art – an American Perspective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the 1984 Venice Biennale. Since the 90’s Frank has exhibited extensively in Australia: in 2000 he had a solo show in the Project Space at the Art Gallery of NSW. In 2005 he won Australia’s ricest painting prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.

Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, photographer, film maker and performance artist, Dale Frank moves effortlessly between his passions.

Recognised for his ground-breaking use of striking colour and tinted varnishes to capture raw beauty and forceful movement across expansive landscapes, Frank’s paintings are imbued with his unique vision of Nature. The artist’s respect and understanding of the film genre is reflected in his ability to craft large shimmering confronting works of art which have the power to completely engage, immerse and challenge the viewer.

Dale Frank explores the deepest layers of painting itself. The 90s saw him begin his experimentation with commercial varnishes and the intricate chemical interaction of various pigments. Pouring luminous pools of pigmented varnish onto horizontal canvas, Dale Frank celebrates the living essence of colour in its liquid form. ‘Nature’ itself, in the form of seasonal temperatures and humidity, works alongside the artist, determining the viscosity and drying times of the pigmented varnish. As new layers are added, Frank controls the angle and direction of the varnish flows with wedges and blocks placed beneath the painting. “It is a totally hands on and cerebral way of painting,” says Frank. “Much more intense than a half-centimetre brush and tubes of oil paint. The process can take up to 24 hours where I have to be permanently standing over the painting, constantly considering every minute aspect.”

Dale Frank - Self Portrait

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Nobody's Sweetie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Date Custard Tart, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2012
The Silence Rode a Donkey Into Town, Gallery Reis, Singapore
Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Armory Show, New York (Anna Schwartz Gallery)
2011
WACKY DUCK FLUFFY TOM, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fennel, Gallery Reis, Singapore
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Ice Age, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2009
Dale Frank, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Dale Frank, Gow Langsford, Auckland
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
Some Boring Paintings, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2007
Sore Throat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006
Dale Frank, Gow Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2004
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2003
Dale Frank, Studio Foyer Exhibitions, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
New Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Views from the Bruce Highway, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2001
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Gow Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand
2000
Ecstasy - 20 Years of Painting, curated by Sue Cramer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Miss Junior Gin Gin Showgirl, Dale Frank (and Adam Cullen), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
1999
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
Gin Gin Paintings, Bundaberg Art Gallery, (touring, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery)
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Unseen New York Paintings 1985-86, Alderton Gallery, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Dale Frank, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (touring Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth; Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand)
Movie Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Teststrip Gallery, Auckland
Dale Frank, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Disco-Behaviouralism, Upper Roma Street, Brisbane (VOLT, Brisbane Festival)
Pool Hall, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, (photography) Sydney
Perfumed Lotus (sculpture performance), Room 117, Asia Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane
1995
Dale Frank, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Sculpture Performance, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank/Scott Redford (collaboration), ISNT Gallery, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
1994
Dale Frank, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Dale Frank, Project Space, Level 2, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Dale Frank, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Dale Frank, Private Viewing, Hugh Jamieson Collection, Bilpin, NSW
Dale Frank, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Dale Frank, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW (Drawing Retrospective, 1980-1994)
Unseen 1984 Exhibition, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Satellite of Love, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, (in association with the National Gallery of Australia, `Virtual Reality'), Canberra
1993
Dale Frank, Solander Gallery, Canberra
Dale Frank, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (Drawing Retrospective, 1980-1992)
Dale Frank, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, P.I.C.A., Perth (Drawing Retrospective, 1980-1992)
Sherman Gallery Goodhope, Sydney
UNFAIR, Cologne
Dale Frank, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
1992
Dale Frank, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle (collaboration with John Coburn)
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Dale Frank, Nolan Gallery, Canberra (collaboration with John Coburn)
Dale Frank, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Dale Frank, The Villa Verte, Kuala Lipis (Kuala Lumpur),Malaysia
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (collaboration with John Cobum)
Dale Frank, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth
Dale Frank, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
1990
Dale Frank, Milburn+Arte, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Sculptures and Constructions, Milburn, Brisbane
1989
Dale Frank, Milburn+Arte, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1988
Dale Frank, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Dale Frank, Milburn+Arte, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Mon Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Dale Frank, E.M.R. Gallery, Sydney
1987
Dale Frank, Studio Marconi, Milan
Dale Frank, Musee de Arte Modern di Ville Liege, Liege; curated by Albert Baronian
Dale Frank, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Dale Frank, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Dale Frank, Mon Gallery, Sydney
1986
Dale Frank, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Dale Frank, Galerie Polynero, Antwerp
Dale Frank, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
Dale Frank, Triagono Modern Arte, Nola (Naples)
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1985
Dale Frank, Palais Des Beaux-Arts (Galerie Albert Baronian), Brussels
Dale Frank, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
Dale Frank, Studio d'Art Cannaviello, Milan
1984
Dale Frank, Studio d'Art Cannaviello, Milan
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, University Gallery, Melbourne
Dale Frank, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Dale Frank, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
1983
Dale Frank, Museum Fodor, (Stedelijk Museum), Amsterdam
Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1982
Dale Frank, Galerie Tanit, Munich
Dale Frank, Perspective 12/82, International Kunstmesse, Basel
Dale Frank, Roslyn OxIey9 Gallery, Sydney
Dale Frank, Severina Teucher Galerie, Zurich
1981
Dale Frank, Acme Art Gallery, London
Dale Frank, Psi Gallery (Project Studio One), New York
Dale Frank, Praxis Gallery, Perth
Dale Frank, Fernando Pellegrino Galerie, Bologna
1980
Dale Frank, Project Art Gallery, Dublin
Dale Frank, Young Artists Club, (FMK), Budapest
Dale Frank, Galerie Sixto Notes, Milan
1979
Dale Frank, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Vibrant Matter, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria.
Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Every day I am a day older: Portraiture from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Mix Tape 1980 s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012 -13
Les Arts De L'effervescence Champagne, Musee des Beauz Arts de Reims, Reims, France
2011
Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Inner Worlds: Portraits and Psychology, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2010
17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, directed by David Elliott
2008
Contemporary Australia - Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art l Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Neo Goth: Back in Black, The Art Museum, University of Queensland, curated by Alison Kubler
2007
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery
2006
Before the Body-Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Tarrawarra Biennial, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2005
Frieze Exhibition, Gow Langford Gallery, Auckland Central
Drawing Centre, curated by Ross Woodrow, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW, Jan-Mar 2005
Winner -The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2004
Auto Fetish: Mechanics of Desire, curated by Nick Mitzevich, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
Swoon, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
Three-way abstraction, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Selected Contemporary Art, Maragret Moore and Anna Scwartz Gallery, Perth
2003
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
In Conversation, The VanVliet Collection of international contemporary art with artworks from the collection of The University of Queensland, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
On the Beach with Whiteley, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland
2001
low-down, Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2000
Monochromes, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Home and away, Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, June 4 - August 22, Auckland Art Gallery Touring exhibition until 2001, Auckland, New Zealand
1999
Moral Hallucinations: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curated by Edward Colless
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (winner), Geelong Art Gallery
Funk de Siecle, Museum of Modern Art Heide, Melbourne, curated by Murray White
Exploratory Behaviour: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Molecular Reality, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, curated by Christopher Chapman
1998
Mécénat Collection, Sherman Galleries (Hargrave), Sydney
Art 29'98, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
The Female Form Divine, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Blue, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Group Show, Alderton Gallery, Brisbane
1997
Art 28'97, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin Art Fair, Germany
It's a Guitar Shaped World III, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth
NOW, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Dead Sun, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curated by Mike Parr
Ambient (Male) Identity, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, curated by Christopher Chapman
1996
Hidden Treasures II, Art in Corporate Collections, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, curated by Christopher Chapman
Art 27'96, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
New Additions, Monash University Collection, Monash University, Melbourne
Sweet & Sticky, Bundaberg Arts Centre; curated by Jane Gallagher
Australia: Familiar and Strange, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea, curated by Timothy Morrell
lmants Tillers, Dale Frank, Geoff Lowe, Robyn Stacy, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1995
Group Exhibition, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Aspects of Australian Printmaking 1984-1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Christmas Show, Peter Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Group Exhibition, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Out of the Analogue, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; curated by Leigh Hobba
1994
McCaughey Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (touring), curated by Nick Waterlow
Faces of Hope, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Virtual Reality, 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, curated by Mary Eagle
1993
Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curated by Kay Campbell
Rad Scunge; new art from Sydney, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Dale Frank
Dale Frank, lmants Tillers, John Young, Sherman Goodhope Gallery, Sydney
Summer Show, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Human, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, (video installation), curated by Christopher Chapman
1992
The Hypothesis of Imitation, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Rex Butler
Drawings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Courts and Jesters, Ars Multiplacata Gallery, Sydney, curated by Jeff Gibson
Prolepsis, National Museum of Art, Kuala Lumpur, curated by Redza Niza-Tan
Medium Density: Contemporary Australian Drawings and Photographs, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1991
Selected Contemporary Australian Artists, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Banal Art, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Rex Butler
The Hypothesis of Imitation, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, curated by Rex Butler
The History of the Electronic Page, Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, curated by Paul Groot
Cross Currents, Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
1990
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Ready Made Boomerang: 8th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Rene Block, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 2, Royal Exhibitions Buildings, Melbourne
Greenpeace Benefit Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Vache, Site Gallery, Brisbane
1989
I.C.l. Contemporary Art Collection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (touring)
Group Show, The University of South East Queensland, Toowoomba
Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher, Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Cosmos, City Gallery, Melbourne
1988
Advance Australian Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
Australian Drawing, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The New Generation (1983-1988), Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchase, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Irony, Humour and Dissent, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, curated by Alison Carroll
1987
Primal Painting, Heide Park Art Gallery, Melbourne
Nature Re-defined, Galerie Segal-Steinberg, Montreal
Documentation, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York
Drawings, 56 Bleeker Street, New York
The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Australian Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Wuttembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart
What Is This Thing Called Science, The University Gallery, University of Melbourne
Australian Contemporary Drawing, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Backlash: Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
Milano + 12 , OSAON Centro di Arte Contemporanea, Milan
15 Years Galerie Albert Baronian, Museum International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp
1986
Everyman, Zurich Forum (Barbara Farber Gallery), Zurich
New Generation, 5 Painters from New York, Segel Steinberg Gallery, Montreal
New Purchases - Recent European Art, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago
Forbidden Obiects, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1985
Dale Frank/Roberto Agus, Unimedia Galerie, Genova
Australian Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Doppelganger/cover, Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam, curated by Paul Groot
Nuove Trame dell'Arte, Castello Genazzano, Rome, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
Anniottanta, Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola (Museum of Modern Art, Bologna), curated by Renato Barilli, Flavio Caroli
Master Drawings, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Rondo 2nd Rassenga lntemazionale d'Arte, Antichi Arsenali, Amalfi, curated by Gaspare Russo
1984
Fremantle Drawing Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, curated by Christa Johannes
Form>lmage>Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, curated by Tony Bond
Dreams & Nightmares, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Aperto 84, Arte e Arti: Attualita e Storia', Biennale of Venice, curated by Flavio Caroli & John Roberts
Symbol, Emblem and Signature, Govett- Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Jennifer Phipps
L'Occhio SuII Imagine, Carla Feishci, Sestri Levante
Recent Australian Art - An American Perspective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, curated by Diane Waldman
Inspirit, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, curated by Garry Nichols
1983
Critica e Arte: Panorama della Post - Critica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, Italy, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
Tall Poppies, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Paul Taylor
Perspecta 83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curated by Bernice Murphy
End of Civilization, Part II, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Vivian Shark-LeWitt
Place, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, curated by Caryn Faure-Walker
De Goddeliik Komedie (The Divine Comedy), Galerie t'Venster, Rotterdam
Maastricht, Rotterdam,and Bonnefantan Museum, curated by Paul Groot
Faces and Portraits from Life, Heide Park Gallery, Melbourne
D'un Autre Continent, ARC2, Musee d'Art Modern de Ia ville de Paris, curated by Suzanne Page
Recent Australian Painting, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Drawings, Art Projects, Melbourne
Vox Pop, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Michelle Foundation Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1982
4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, curated by William Wright
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, (winning entry)
White and Black Drawings, Willard Gallery, New York
1981
Les Oeuvres Plastigues Exposition, Espace Lyonnais d'Arte
Contemporain, Lyon, France, curated by Marie Claude-Jeune
April Show, PS1, New York
Anzart, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, curated by Ian Hunter
1980
Post 80's Video, Action Space Gallery, London
Project Art Gallery, (Spring Program), Dublin
1979
Alternatives, Sydney Biennale, Sculpture Centre, Sydney
Nexus: 4 Artists, Triskel Art Gallery, Cork
1978
Ten Contemporary Sculptors, State Office Block, Sydney
La Trobe University Sculpture Festival, La Trobe University Art Centre, Melbourne
1977
Mildura Sculpture Triennale, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney
1976
Four Painters, Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
1975
Wynne Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Maitland Bradmill Painting Prize, Maitland, Australia (Syd Ball, Judge)
Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney1974
Red Cross Art Prize, Sydney, (winning entry, John Olsen, Judge)
BIBLIOGRAPHY since 1982
2012
Les Arts De L'effervescence Champagne (Exhibition Publication), Musee des Beauz Arts de Reims, (2012: Somogy Editions D'Art, France)
2011
Christopher Chapman, Inner Worlds: Portraits and Psychology, National Portrait Gallery: Canberra, 2011
2010
David Elliott, ,The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney catalogue, published by the Biennale of Sydney Ltd in association with Thames & Hudson, Australia Pty Ltd.
2009
Robert Bevan, “A Grand Obsession”, Australian Financial Review Magazine
2008
Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, 116
Ashley Crawford, `Dale Frank, The Story So Far,' Art World, Issue 1, Feb/Mar, pp. 42-46
Sebastien Smee, `Forget Me Not', The Weekend Australian, April 5-6, 2008, pp.18-19
2007
So Far: The Art of Dale Frank, 1980-2005, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne (440 pages)
Sebastian Smee, `Into the twilight zone,' The Australian, 31 March - April 1 2007, pp.18-19
Sarah Stutchbury, `Dale Frank: Strung out in heaven's high', Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, Lynne Seear and Julia Eqington (eds), Queensland Art Gallery Publishing, Brisbane, pp.206-11
2006
Before the Body-Matter, exh. Cat., Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Terry Ingram, `Frank identified as Australiana buyer', The Australian Financial Review, Thursday, 23 November 2006, p.19
Danika Jones, `To be Frank', Vogue Living, May/June 2006, pp.162 - 175
Tracey Clement, `Preview: Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 4 - 24 May 2006', Australian Art Collector, Issue 36, April - June 2006, p.217
2005
Timothy Morrell, `Previews QLD, Dale Frank', Art Galleries Schubert, Australian Art Collector, Issue 33, July-September p.245
Annette Larkin, Justin Miller and Damian Hackett, `going, going, gone…', Three auction house experts reveal their top 10 favourite Australian artists to watch…,' Vogue Living, May-June, pg.110
Richard Kalina, `Report from Downunder: Down Under no more', Art in America, April 2005, pg.77
Nick Mitzevich and Ross Woodrow, Drawing Centre, exh. cat., Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Jan - March
Jane Rankin-Reid, `Dale Frank,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 31, January-March, pg.89
Sebastian Smee, `Competitors help regional painters to make their mark,' The Australian, 31st January
2004
Ingrid Woodrow, Auto Fetish, exh. cat., Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Nov 04 - Jan 05,
Jane Rankin-Reid, `Dale Frank's conceptual abstraction,' Art & Australia, vol.42 no.2, Summer, p.211-214
Ashley Crawford, `Dale Frank' (feature), Art & Australia, Vol.42 No.2, Summer, p. 207
Andrea Tu, `Swoon,' Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts & Culture, vol. 33 no.3, September - November, CACSA, p.58
Ihor Holubizky, `Dale Frank,' Australian Art Collector, issue 29, July - September, p.183
Dominique Angeloro, `Tag-team smackdown,' Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), Jun 4 - 10, p.26
Alex McDonald, `The Dead Zone,' State of the Arts (Reviews), June
`Smells like Victory,' The Art Life, /, 11 June
Michael Walters, `Eclectic Dreams,' Belle, 30th Anniversary Issue, April/May, p.186-191
2003
Ewen McDonald, `The ever-expanding field,' Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, p.32 - 36
`Dale Frank,' Blaze: Visual Art Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002, CACSA, Adelaide, p.24
Anne Loxley, `Gems behind the verbiage,' Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Wednesday, April 9, p.14
Lenny Ann Low and Peter Hill, `Grin and bare it,' Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, April 12 - 13, p.12
2002
Charles Green, `Into the 1990s: the decay of postmodernism,' Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003), p.100 - 111
2000
Editors, `Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Sydney, Issue 11, January-March, pp.65
Sue Cramer, `The Painter of These Paintings is Either Dale Frank, Or If Not Dale Frank, Someone Else of the Same Name,' (interview with Dale Frank) Dale Frank, Ecstasy Twenty Years Of Painting, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney, pp.3 - 19
Christopher Chapman, `DFX4,' (article), Dale Frank. Ecstasy Twenty Years of Painting, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, pp.20- 25.
Elizabeth Fortescue, `Varnishing act,'The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Feb 4, pp.119
Timothy Morrell, `Very Frank,' (article), The Eye, Sydney, Vol 2 No 2, Feb 10, pp.70 -73
Giles Auty, `Title fright,' (review), Arts Review, The Weekend Australian, Sydney, Feb 12 - 13, pp.19
Bruce James, `To Be Earnest, It's Far From Frank', (review), The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts, Sydney, February 26, pp.S14
Annette Hughes, `The Ecstasy of St Frank,' HQ Magazine, Sydney, No 69, March - April, pp.28
Andrew Frost, `Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 7, Jan-Mar, pp. 27-64, 35
1999
William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, p. 118-9, 135
1998
Michael Newall, `ambient (male) identity,' (review), Eyeline, Brisbane, No. 35, p. 41
Linda Michael, Bernice Murphy, Ben Curnow, The MCA Collection: The Loti and Victor Smorgan Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, (publication), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, pp. 32, 60-61,104
Jeff Gibson, `Dale Frank,' (review), Flash Art (international), Milan, March-April, no. 223
Peter Timms, `Frankly, he gives a damn,' (review), The Age, Melbourne, June 24
Christopher Chapman, Dale Frank: Cool Cosmic World, ex. cat., Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, June
Ken Lord, `Encore... people,' The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, July 5, p.81
Rex Butler, `Frank exploration of the importance of being outrageous,' (review), The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, (arts weekend 12) July 11, p.12
1997
Rex Butler, `Eyes Closed in Dale's Disco', Like, No 2, March, pp.14-17
Christopher Chapman, `Abstract Identity', Broadsheet, Adelaide, vol 26, no 1, Autumn, pp.6- 7
Dale Frank, `Only the Lonely,' MONICA, Auckland, New Zealand, Summer 97, pp.14 -15
Robin Neate, `Big Art Moments,' MONICA, Auckland, New Zealand, Summer 97, p.43
Virginia Trioli, `A sign of the times,' The Age, Metro Arts, Melbourne, 19 March
Robert Nelson, `Tantrums and goo: the mark of bad-boy art,' (review), The Age, Melbourne, 19 March
Christopher Chapman, `Molecular Reality,' exh cat., Dale Frank New Zealand tour, Govett­ Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Lindsay Shonagh, `Art that oozes talent,' Sunday Star-Times, Auckland, NZ, July 20, p.8
`Extreme Close-Up,' Listener, Auckland, NZ, July 12, p.41
`Brisbane-based artist extends the boundaries,' Daily News, Auckland, NZ, June 17
Matthew Bannister, `What's On,' North and South Magazine, July issue, New Zealand
TJ McNamara, `Painting by Numbers,' Perspective on Art, NZ Herald, August 1
Michael NewalI, `Michael Newall Interviews Christopher Chapman,' Broadsheet, Adelaide, Vol 24 No 4, Summer, pp.14-15
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1996
Bruce James, `Galleries', The Sydney Morning Herald, September 13
Peter Ward, `The State of the Arts - What's Hot in `96', The Australian, 6-7 January, pp.20-22
Christopher Chapman, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, ex cat., Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, March, pp. 14, 60-61, 102-103, 136
`Dale Frank,' Art + Text, Sydney, No. 53, January, pp.44-45
Peter Ward, `On-the-edge Biennale for an age of anxiety', The Australian, 5 March, p.12
Joanna Mendelssohn, `Dale Frank', The Australian, 22 March, p.10
Bruce James, `Chapmans Casper, Broadsheet, Adelaide, vol 25, no. 2, Winter, p.21
Robyn McKenzie, `Scratching the surface of intrigue', The Age, 28 June, Melbourne, p.21
Tessa Laird, `Frank (Social Realism)', (review), MONICA magazine, issue 3, Auckland, New Zealand, p.28
Kit Messham-Muir, `Dale Frank: Social Realism' Eyeline, no.31, Spring, pp.44-45
Tessa Laird, `Frank and Redford (Social Realism) Dale and Scott' Monica, August/ September
Dale Frank, `And Where to Now - Reality and Art,' paper delivered at Volt Symposium, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 5 September
Christopher Chapman, `Room Service,' Broadsheet, Adelaide, Summer 96/97, Vol 25 No 4, p.23
William McAloon, The Self and Other Inventions, exh. cat., Chartwell Collection exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand
Bernard Freedman, `Virtual reality confuses', Australian Jewish News, Sydney 6 Jan
Sonia Barron, `Viewers are deliberately victimised', The Canberra Times, 13 Jan, p.12
Charles Green, Peripheral Vision - Contemporary Australian Art, Craftman House Publishers, Sydney, pp.36-37
Robert Lindsay, The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, exh. cat., Melbourne, pp.36-37
David McNeiII, `Virtual Reality', Art + Text, Sydney, issue 51, p.70-71
1994
Christopher Chapman, `Dale Frank: Reclining Nude', National Gallery News, January-February, Canberra, p.16
John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February, p.20
Susan McCulloch, `Finding the Art of the Matter, Herald Sun Melbourne, Mar 30
Christopher Heathcote, `Dunlop drives his one formula', The Age, Melbourne, March 30
Nick Waterlow, 25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, exh. cat., Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney, June, pp.6, 27, 62, 64
Elwyn Lynn, `Curious kinships of myth and man', The Weekend Australian, June 18-19, p.13
Anthony Bond, `Dash and Daring: The Work of Dale Frank', Look Magazine, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Christopher Chapman, Dale Frank: It's a Rush, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
John McDonald, `This time it's not the Poms whinging', The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July, p.l3A
Elwyn Lynn, `Touched by a cast of Thousands', The Weekend Australian, 30-31 July, p.l3
Rex Butler, `Nixon's Watergate', Agenda. #37, Melbourne, July, p.9-12
Christopher Chapman, `Carnivorous Plants: Cultured Nature in Contemporary Art', Art & Australia, Spring, Vol.32, No.1, Sydney, p.92-97
Jeff Gibson, `Dale Frank,' Sydney, No.49, September, p.73
Mary Eagle, `Introduction,' Virtual Reality, exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, December, p.5
Christopher Chapman, `Dale Frank and the Diamond Dogs', exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, December, pp.46-47
Christopher Chapman, `Reality Used to be a Friend of Mine', `The Liquidity Problem and the Rush' (reprint AGNSW, `It's a Rush', June 1994), Satellite of Love, exh. cat., Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, December
Christopher Chapman, `Conceptual Vertigo: New Object Art from Australia' MIDWEST, Dunedin, New Zealand, Number Six, December, pp.31-35
Farah Farouque, `Welcome to the National Gallery where shopping is an art, really', The Age, Melbourne, 9th December, p.24
Bruce James, `User-friendly artworks are a virtual reality', The Age, Melbourne 21 December, p.22
Bruce James, `With a slip of the eye', Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December, p.16
Sonia Barron, `Roads to nowhere and everywhere', The Canberra Times, 23 December, p.27
Cohn Hood, `Shop-soiled and Scintillating', REALTIME, issue 4, Dec, p.27
Dale Frank', Artfan, Melbourne, Spring, No. 3 & 4, p.35-36
1993
Naomi Cass, `Dale Frank', Art + Text, No.44, Sydney, January, p.82
Paul Foss, `The Painters Dildo (Portrait of Dale Frank)', Wit's End (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, publisher, Sydney, January, pp.143-167
Catharine Lumby, `Smiling Saboteurs: Irony and Contemporary Art', Wit's End, exh. cat., MCA publisher, Sydney, January, pp.11-29
Kay Campbell, `Out of Humour, Wit's End, exh. cat., MCA, Sydney, January, pp.11-29
Sofia Barron, `Showman or Shaman: a controversial artist,' Canberra Times, Canberra, March 3rd, Arts. pp.30-31
Kay Campbell, `At Wit's End', Look Magazine, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, March, p.20
Ashley Crawford, `The Orgasmic Alienation', Where Angels Fear to Tread, Drawings 1980-1992 exh. cat., Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, April, pp.3-7
Catherine Lumby, `The Engine of Irony', Where Angels Fear to Tread, Drawings 1980-1992 exh. cat., Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, April, pp.8-14
Robert Rooney, `Bad boy more of a bland boy', The Australian, The Weekend Review, Sydney, May 8-9, pp.11
Jeff Gibson, `Avant-Grunge', Art + Text, Sydney, No.45, May, pp.23-25
Graham Forsyth, `Wit's Living End', Art + Text, Sydney, No.45, May, pp.26-29, 99.
`Wit's End', MCA Members Newsletter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, May-June, p.2
`Wit's End: The Uses of Irony' (screenings) MCA Members Newsletter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, May -June, p.9
Christopher Chapman, `Dale Frank's Organicism,' Art Monthly Australia, Canberra, June 1993 pp.22-23
Lynn Fern, `A hero aground', The Sydney Morning Herald, June 4, p.24
`A Frank Exchange', Sydney Morning Herald, July 16
Elwyn Lynn, `Various Aspects of Genius', The Weekend Australian, July 23-24, p.13
Felicity Fenner, `Electric Currents Flowing on Canvas', The Sydney Morning Herald, July 31st, p.46
Christopher Heathcote, `Art Striking but not a feature', The Age, Melbourne, Sept 21, p.15
Dale Frank, UNFAIR 93', exh. cat., Unfair, Cologne, Germany (Kim Machen Art)
Christopher Chapman, `Dale Frank', World Art inaugural issue, Melbourne, November, pp.100-104
Graham Coulter Smith, `Dale Frank,' Jane Magon, Eyeline, Brisbane, No.22 & 23, summer, pp.61-62
1992
Leanne Baxter, Tempo Notes', Sun Herald, 19 January, p.140
Jill Stowell, `Elegant Abstracts Submerged in Paint', Newcastle Herald, 21 January, p.7
`Challenging Art at the Gallery', Newcastle Herald, Trends, p.7
`Port Exhibit', Newcastle Herald, 15 January, p.17
Graham Forsyth, `Luscious Landscapes: Banal Beauties', Art + Text, No. 41, Melbourne, January, pp.41-45
Elwyn Lynn, `Cringe Theory Gives Way to Admiration', The Weekend Australian, 14 Mar
Ken Bolton, `Short Rope enough to tie up the message,' Advertiser, Adelaide, April 8,
Christopher Heathcote, `Melbourne,' Art Monthly, Canberra, issue 49, May, pp.14-16
Rex Butler, `The Hypothesis of Imitation,' Agenda, Melbourne, issue 23, May/June, pp.17-21
Rosalind Walker, `Dale Frank/John Coburn,' MUSE, Musecrits, July, p.3l
Jane Magon, Dale Frank, Craftsman House, Roseville East, NSW, 1992 (204 pages)
Jane Magon, `The Sacred and the Profane,' Art & Australia, Sydney, Spring Issue, vol. 30, no. 1 pp.92-95
Christopher Heathcote, `Dale Frank, not one of the old school, even yesterdays,' The Age, Melbourne, October 14, p.l4
Robert Rooney, `Frank on the coffee table,' Weekend Australian, Melbourne, October 17, Review p.l I
Elwyn Lynn, `Triumph of the smooth in the rough recessionary times,' Weekend Australian, Sydney, October 31, review p.I
Terence Maloon, `It is a violence from within', You Are Here, exh. cat., IMA, Brisbane, November, p.40
1991
Elwyn Lynn, `In or out of Race, its a minefield', Weekend Australian, Sydney, 5 January, p.8
Jo Saurin, `Reward of Sensual Pleasures', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 22 March, p.12
Elwyn Lynn, `Champs canvass art with punch', The Weekend Australian, Sydney, 23 March, p.8
Michael Richards, `Explosion of Paints Combines the Classical and Chaotic', The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 25 June, p.20
Adam Geczy, `Banal Art', Agenda, no 18, Melbourne, July p.16
Peter Hutchings, `Banal Art', Art + Text, Sydney, no 39, May, p.74
Bernard Smith and Terry Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press, pp.531, 534, 539
Graham Forsyth, `Dale Frank', Art + Text, Sydney, no 40, September, pp.86-87
Wayne Hudson, Chiliasm, exh. cat., Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Rex Butler, Banal Art, exh. cat., Artspace, Sydney
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Dale Frank, exh. cat., Koln Art Fair, November
Felicity Fenner, `A more than frank exchange of views', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October, p.47
Rex Butler, The Hypothesis of Imitation, exh. cat., Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, October, pp.5-7
Bernice Murphy, `The Power Collection; Development in the 1980s', Art and Australia, vol. 29, no.2, summer, Sydney, p.211
Robert Rooney, `Bad Boy Ages Tastefully', The Australian, 23-24 November, p.6
Brian Phipps, `Good Taste: Bad Taste', Oz Arts Magazine, Sydney, Issue 1, Spring, 1991, pp.26-31
Marie Giessler, `Collecting Art and Antiques', Oz Arts Magazine, Sydney, Issue 1, Spring, 1991 pp.42-47
Elwyn Lynn, `No Claus for Santa but plenty of Anima,' Weekend Australian, Sydney, December 21, Review p.3
Bernard Smith/Terry Smith, `Post Modern Plurality 1980-1990,' Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press, Chapter 16, pp.531, 534
1990
Ashley Crawford, `A Chronicle of Australian Art 1980-1989', Tension 19, January 1990
Arthur McIntyre, Contemporary Australian Collage and its Origins, Craftsman House Publishers, Sydney
Anna Johnson, `Dale Frank', Interior Architecture and Design, no 22, pp.152- 157
Catherine Lumby, `Dale Frank - Fed-up with Art', Art and Text, no 25, Summer, pp.139-141
Jay Younger, `Post Modernism - The Baby and the Bathwater', Broadsheet, Adelaide, vol 19, no 1, March, p.10
Rene Block, The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Centurv Art, exh. cat., Sydney, 8th Biennale of Sydney, April, pp. 458-459, 475
Jane Magon, `Fame and the Art of Dale Frank', Dale Frank: Adieu, Melbourne, Deutscher Brunswick Street, June
Christopher Heathcote, `Martin and Frank', Art Monthly, June, p. l4
Dale Frank, `Just Imagine The Biennale sees you but you don't see it', Tension, No. 21, June
Catharine Lumby, Dale Frank Adieu, (catalogue introduction), Deutscher Brunswick Street, June, p.3
Louise Neri, `Block's Buster: Eros, C'est Ia vie, Cumulus From Australia', Parkett, Zurich, no 25, September, pp.143-49
Paul Groot, `Sydney Biennale,' Flash Art, Milan, no 154, October
Sonia Harford, `Arts bad boy takes on the system', Sunday Herald, Melbourne, 24 June
Ronald Miller, `Go south for gentle pleasures', The Herald, Melbourne, 20 June
1989
Jane Magon, `Dale Frank', Eyeline, no 5, pp.32-33
A selection of 19th and 20th Century Art, exh. cat., Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, November, p.109
Paul Groot, `De kunstgeschiedenis is dood. Leve de kunstgesch-denis!: Pittoresk II', Museumiournal, Amsterdam, vol 34, no 2 & 3, pp.97-103
Dale Frank, exh. cat., Sydney, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, July
William Wright and Robert Lindsay, ICI Contemporarv Art Collection, exh. cat., Melbourne
Michael Richards, `Europia from the Abstract,' The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 5 April
Carolyn Barnes, `Cosmic Resistance', Agenda Contemporary Art, no 5, June, pp.3-5
Bob Linguard and Sue Cramer, Institute of Modern Art - 1975 to 1989: A Documentary History, lnstitute of Modern Art, pp. 84, 121
Annette Cyr, `Dale Frank', (review), 108 Review, New York, no 10, January, p. 9
Elwyn Lynn, `Carving Out Skill's Domain', (review), The Weekend Australian, 19 August, p. 113
Christopher Allen, Satirising surfaces beneath face value', (review), The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 August, p.14
1988
Andrew Bogle, Advance Australia Painting, (catalogue), Auckland, Auckland City Gallery,
Dan Cameron, `Showdown at Southern Cross', - Notes on the 1988 Australian Biennale, Artlink, Adelaide, vol 8, no 3, pp. 10-14
Betsy Brennan, `AvantGaga', Vogue Living, June-July, pp.114,117-118, 152
Graham Coulter-Smith, `Dale Frank', Eyeline, no 6, September, pp.10-11
Robert Rooney, `Dale Frank,' The Weekend Australian, 14 May
Dale Frank - Trusting in the Pipe-Dream, exh. cat., Melbourne, Realities Gallery, April
Dale Frank - Drawing Survey, exh. cat., Sydney, EMR Gallery in association with Mon Gallery, May
15 Years Galene Albert Baronian in I.C.C., exh. cat., Antwerp/Brussels, Galerie Albert Baronian, November, pp.34-35
Jennifer Mc Camley, `A Storm in a Teacup? - Dale Frank', Tension, no 14, Sept, pp.12-18
Arthur McIntyre, Australian Contemporary Drawing, Boolarong Publishers, Sydney
1987
Naomi Cass (ed), What Is This Thing Called Science?, exh. cat., Melbourne, The University Gallery
Daniela Salvioni, `Combustible Demarcations: The Art of Dale Frank', in Tony Bond (ed), The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, October, pp.28-35
Dale Frank, exh. cat., Realities Gallery, June
Luisa Somaini `tuttoarte,' La Republica, Milan, 16 January
Gian Petro Vincenzo, `Neo Geo,' Per Lui Vogue, Milan, 16 January
Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, `Dale Frank: Quadri come apparizioni,' Panorama, March, p.26
Adriano Antolini, `E l'arte trovo casa a Milano', II Giornale Nuovo, Milan, 8 February
Luciano Caprile, `Da Schlichter a Frank e Pardi,' II Sole 24 Ore, Milan, 8 February
Giancinto di Pietrantonio, `Dale Frank/Alfredo Pirri', Flash Art, (ltalia), Milan, March, pp.50-51
`Thronging the Canvases', Follow Me, Sydney, August, p.140
Pamela Hansford, `Dale Frank', Art and Australia, vol 25, no 2, Summer, pp.240-243
Terry Smith, `Frank Explores the Heights of Bad Taste', Times on Sunday, 11 October, p.30
Elwyn Lynn, `From The Hall of Fame...', The Weekend Australian, 10 October
Robert Rooney, `A return to Cosmic abstraction,' The Weekend Australian, 27 June
Shona Martyn, `Why Dale Frank can buy Gaultier', Vogue Australia, no 4, April, p.101
Robert Rooney, `Marvelling at this thing called science', Weekend Australian, Sydney, 5 December
Dale Frank, `The Story of a Crime - for Want of a Better Title', (unpublished manuscript) Murrurundi, March, pp.1-16
1986
Gregorio Magnani, `Dale Frank', Flash Art, (International), no 126, Milano, February, pp.60-61
Gregorio Magnani, `Dale Frank', Westuff, no 3, Florence, March, pp.16-17
Pier Luigi Tazzi, `Dale Frank', Artforum, vol 24, no 8, New York, April, pp.118
Timothy Morrell, `Big Drawings', Art and Australia, vol 23, no 3, March, p.366
Francesco Alfano Miglietti, `Che Tempo Fara?', Flash Art (ltalia), no 133, April, pp.72-73
Paul Groot, `Die Malerei im Dienste eines anatomisdhen Projects, Einige
Bermerkungen zum junger europaischer Maler', Europe-America: 1940 to the Present, exh. cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig, September, pp.407-418
3rd International Triennale der Zeichnung, exh. cat., Nurnberg, National Museum Nurnberg
Leo Loomans, Dale Frank (unpublished interview for undergraduate history thesis)
Hannah Fink, `Art Stars: Dale Frank', X-Press, Sydney, vol 1, no 6, December, p.12
Ted Gott, Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986, exh. cat., Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, pp.38-41,83,95
1985
Helena Kontova `Dale Frank,' Flash Art (International), no 120, Milan, January, p.70-71
Michael Kohn, `Dale Frank,' Flash Art (International), no 120 January, p.43-44
Paul Groot, Dale Frank, exh. cat., 9e Foire d'Art Actual, (Galerie Albert Baronian), Palais Des Beaux-Arts Brussels, January
Gerrit Henry, `Dale Frank,' Art in America, 1985, no 2, New York, February, p.140-141
Paul Groot, De Surrealistiche Variaties van Dale Frank, Museumjournal, no 1, Amsterdam, March, p.49
`Dale Frank', Artists Pages, Museumjournal, 1985, no 1, Amsterdam, March, p. 50-51
Donald B. Kuspit, `Australian Visions at the Guggenheim,' Art in America, no 3, New York, March, p.153-154
Angela Vettasi, `Europe and America: Two Aspects of the New Surreal', Flash Art (International), no 122, Milan, May, pp.20-2 1
Paul Groot, Cover/Doppelganger, ex. cat., Aorta, Amsterdam, May, p.95
Arthur McIntyre, `Freudian Imagery Abounds, The Age, Melbourne, 25 May, p.44
Elwyn Lynn, `View of Chaos, Malignity', Weekend Australian, Sydney, May 25, p.14
Achille Bonito Oliva, Nuove Trame Dell'Arte, exh. cat., Castello Gennazzano, Italy, July, pp.68-69
Antonio d'Avossa, `Le trame del Castello', Flash Art (ltalia), no 128, Milan, summer, pp.62-63
Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, `From New York with Love', Flash Art, no 123, Milan, summer, pp.46-47 (reprinted, Flash Art ltalia), no 128, Milan, summer, pp.26-27
Lucia Spadano and Achille Bonito Oliva, `Nuove Trame Dell'Arte', Segno, no 47, Rome, June, p.8-15
Ashley Crawford, `Dale Frank: Dionysus verses Apollo', Stilletto, no 24, Melbourne, June, p. 4
Alida Militello, `Tanti Modi Di Essere Blouson', EpocaModa, no 11, Verona, October, p.66-67
Silvia Zangheri, `Espressione, Spirito Selvaggio e neoprimitivo', exh. cat., Anniottanta, (Flavio Caroli and Renalto Barilli), Bologna, July, pp.163-169, 195-196, 223
Lucia Spadano, `Fall Out', Secino, no 48, Rome, September, pp.30-32
Gregorio Magnani, `Dale Frank,' Flash Art (ltalia), no 130, Milano, Dec, p.46
Francesca Alfano Miglietti, `Provisioni de Tempo', Flash Art (ltalia), no 130, Milano, Dec, pp.662-64
Megan Cronly, `Mastering the Art', Follow Me, no 19, Sydney, October, pp.136-141
Rondo, (catalogue), Antichi Arsenali, Amalfi, December, pp. 50-51, 90-91
Camille Sbrissa, `Milan', Artline, London, vol 2, no 10, winter, p.18
Peter Haynes, Dale Frank, exh. cat., Canberra, Canberra School of Art Gallery
`Bold and Provocative,' Canberra Times, 18 June
Paul Goodwin, `Dale Frank,' Flash Art (Italia), Milan, no 126, January
John McDonald, `Dale Frank/Mike Parr,' Art Network, Sydney, no 17, Spring, p.53
Terence Maloon, `Australia, emotionally unbuttoned', Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March
Ronald Miller, `Neurotic vision fits the bill', The Herald, Melbourne, 20 June
Giulio Ciavoliello, `Dale Frank', Juliet, Trieste, no 23, December, p.9
Paul Groot, `Dale Frank: With the eye if you are quick enough to turn on the light you can see what the dark looks like', Art and Text, Melbourne, no 17, April 1985, pp.29-30, 81-83
1984
Cathy Peake, `Tiber to Lilliput - and back again', The Financial Review, Sydney, 29 June
Arthur McIntyre,' Slow down, young man', The Age, Melbourne, 10 July
Gertrude Langer, `Young Artists Images, Eerie, Disturbing,' The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 19 September
Grant Hannan, `Effective, original,' The Herald, Melbourne, 16 August, p.26
Robert Rooney, `Bygone era meets “new wave”', The Weekend Australian, Sydney, Magazine 13, 11 August
Vivienne Shark LeWitt, `The End of Civilization Part II: Love Among the Ruins', Art and Text, Melbourne, no 10, Winter, pp.1-6
Sue Cramer, `A change of place, a change of meaning', The Age, Melbourne, 17 August
Eric Gibson, `Australian in Manhattan', Studio International, London, no 197, 1007, p.45
Stuart Morgan, `The Journey from the Tiber to Lilliput and back again,' Dale Frank - Death,
Broadsheet, Sydney, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, June
Jennifer Phipps, Symbols. Emblems. Signatures: Australian Drawing 1984, exh. cat., New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Gallery
Diane Waldman, Australian Visions: 1984 Exxon International Exhibition, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, September, pp.19-20, 32-40
Susanna Short, `Seascape surge ahead of the narrow, cosy view', The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 June, p.10
Elwyn Lynn, `Still Life:delusion to the didactic', The Weekend Australian, Sydney, 28 April
Tony Bond, Form>lmage Paul Taylor, `Tall Poppies', Art & Text, no 12-13, Melbourne, January, p.52
Sue Cramer, `Vox Pop', Art & Text, no 12-13, Melbourne, January, p.136-142
Jenny Watson, `Urgent Images', Art & Text, no 14, Melbourne, June, p.69-74
Flavio Caroli, Aperto 84: XLI La Biennale di Venezia 1984, exh. cat., Venice, June, pp.201,207
Helena Kontova, `Dale Frank', Flash Art (ltaliana), no 122, Milan, July, (Estate), p.22-23
Flavio Caroli, `La Biennale di Venezia', Flash Art (ltaliana), no 122, Milan, July, (Estate), p.67
Judy Annear, `Us in the U.S.', Vogue Australia, vol XXVIII, no 8, Sydney, August, pp.160-163, 193
Paul Groot, Dale Frank, exh. cat., Melbourne University Art Gallery, Melbourne, August
Memory Holloway, Recent Australian Art - An American Perspective, exh. cat., Bleak Romantics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September, pp.11-21, 32-41
Paul Groot, `Closed Quotes', Artforum, vol XXIII, no 1, New York, September, p.107
Stuart Morgan, `Dale Frank', Artforum, vol XXIII, no 2, New York, October, p.101
Paul Groot, `Dale Frank', Artists, no 22-23, Paris, October, p.116-119
Elio Graziolo, `Dale Frank', Flash Art (International), no 11, Milan, November, p.49
Ken Sofer, `Views from Downunder,' Art News, vol 83, no 10, New York, Dec, p.157
1983
Sue Cramer, `Masterpieces and Tall Poppies', Art Network, Sydney, no 10, Winter, p.42
Elizabeth Cross, Figures and Face Drawn from Life, exh. cat., Melbourne, Heide Park and Art Gallery, October
Dale Frank, `Punchline,' Broadsheet, Sydney, August
Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1983, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, May, p.44
Jennifer Phipps, `Paintings', in Leon Paroissien (ed), Australian Art Review 2, Melbourne, Warner Association, pp.74-81
Tim McLauchlan, `The Art Market in 1982', in Leon Paroissien (ed) Australian Art Review 2, Melbourne, Warner Association, pp.122-125
Robert Rooney, `Taylor Made to Fit a Theory', The Australian, Sydney, 14 May
Michael Spens, `Australian Art Beyond the Cringe', Studio International, London, vol 196, no 1002, pp.13-15
Paul Taylor, `Arts News: Artists in Paris', Vogue Australia, Sydney, October
Bernice Murphy, `Recent Painting in Australia', Flash Art, no 110, Milan, February, p.56-59
Helen Kontova, `Anselm Kiefer, Thomas Lawson, Dale Frank' in Achille Bonito Oliva (ed), Critica ad Arte: Panorama della Post - Critica, exh. cat., Musei Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, Italy, March, p.138-142
Paul Taylor, Tall Poppies, exh. cat., Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne, April
Mathew Collings `Place at Gimpel FiIs', Artscribe, London, no 42, Sept, p.61-62
Helen Kontova, `La Peinture issue de Ia performance', Flash Art (ed. Francaise), no 1, Milan, Autumn, p.12-17
C. Galantai, `New Painting', Artpool, no 3, Budapest, Winter
Leon Paroissien & Suzanne Page, D'un Autre Continent: L'Australia, exh. cat., Musee d'Arte Modern de Ia yule de Paris, September, pp.25, 27, 29-107
Ashley Crawford, `Dale Frank', Tension, no 2, Melbourne, October, p.28-30
Michael Spens `Dream and Reality', Studio International, vol 196, no 1002, London, November, p.13-14
William Wright, `Australian Perspecta', Studio International, vol 196, no 1002, London, November, p.36-39
Paul Groot, The Divine Comedy, exh. cat., Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, October
Peter Haynes, `ACT 3: Ten Performance Artists', Australian Art Review, no 2, Sydney, p.49-54
Robert Rooney, `Tall Poppies', Flash Art, no 115, Milan, November, p.74
1982
Wynstan Curnow, `Christchurch ANZART', Artforum, New York, April
Terence Maloon, `Dale Frank rides the crest of a wave like an experienced surfer', The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September
Bernice Murphy, `Some Recent Painting in Australia', in Achille Bonito Oliva (ed), Transavantaarde International, Milan, Giarncarlo Politi, p.275
Roberto Daolio, `Dale Frank, Artista', Lapis Arte, Salerno, June pp.8-10
Ban Epo Arte, `Art Fair', Domus, Milan, no 629, June, p.74
Helena Kontova `From Performance to Painting', Flash Art, no 106, Milan, Feb, p.16-21
Mike Parr `Vision in Disbelief, 4th Biennale of Sydney', Flash Art, no 108, Milan, June, p.71-72
William Wright, Vision in Disbelief, 4th Biennale of Sydney, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Marcia Tucker `An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting: Sex, Death, Violence
and the Apocalypse', Artforum, Vol X, no 10, New York, June
Roberto Daolia, `Dale Frank Artiste', Lapis Arte, Salerno (Italy), June, p.8-9
Editorial, Review of Ban Expo Arts, Domus, no 629, Milan, p.74, June
Mike Parr, `Glossolalia/Stroke: the Art of Dale Frank', AsDect, Sydney, Spring, p.60-63
Jennifer Phipps, `Anzart', Australian Art Review, no I Sydney, p.81

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