'The River, Dettol colour, with depth increasing Molasses consistency, the acid sting giving way to a sweet nauseous caramel detachment. His eyes no longer inward squirting lemons but swollen ripe wet fruit. Peeled back Lychees the size of Grapefruit. The Panadol induced creation of a dead man by circumstance and the fancy of delusions, "floating islands", a primordial soup that was his bilious beginning and bloated undoing. A loud pungent dessert ever present with each bite of each preceding course of his fifty year banquet.'- 2009
In the turbine hall at cockatoo island Dale Frank has a series of 12 abstract paintings that span the space. His works have an abstract style with the use of swirling colour in which the technique he uses of pouring paint onto canvas is a crucial aspect to his practice. The paint is so thick that gravity has caused pockets of wet paint under a thick drying. His painting could be described as "lyrical abstraction" rather than the action paintings of Pollok. Although his work seems to represent that of a 'traditional' style (canvas and paint), it is through his application and use of varnish and paint he a achieves a sculptural form.
"Dale Frank’s paintings show how far abstraction has come in a matter of forty years, or so. They are impressive canvases which demonstrate the unpredictability of life which in which we take all possible measures to control. His titles for his work may be lengthy and pretentious, but this is an extravagance he can afford. Hs work is a breath of fresh air into not only one sense but his art is something you wish you could also touch taste and smell."
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