Dale Frank, Emma loved the thought of just for once being herself, it was a boarding pass she had long thought about, but then her inflated ego drowning in her own beauty would spew out copious objections, 2024. Translucent dye, colour powder pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 180cm. Courtesy: the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents Alicia’s thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag, an exhibition of new paintings by Dale Frank.

Frank is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists. Since the 1970s, Frank has enjoyed a successful international career as a conceptual artist. Best known for his vivacious abstract paintings, his multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, performance, film, and installation, all of which adhere closely to his experimental approach to new materialities. For decades Frank’s practice has been motivated by his ongoing empirical investigations into the potentiality of painting, finding new abilities and power in painting as integral and crucial to understanding art today.

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