Dale Frank
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Dale Leonard Frank is an Australia
n contemporary artist. Frank was born near Singleton, New South Wales
, Australia. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since the early 1980s. He has an abstract
style with swirling colours. He uses techniques of pouring paint onto canvas, the aspect of pouring the paint being important in his work.
Frank worked in Europe and America in the 1980s, then returned to Australia in rural parts of New South Wales and Queensland. He won the 2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from the Bendigo Art Gallery
(2005), worth $50,000.
Frank was married to Kim leonie, Denise, Machan (born 1960). With whom he soon had his two offspring; Napoleon, Odelion, Eugene, Sebastian, Dale, Maitland, Frank (born 1988); and Iris-Ophelia Consuela, Cleopatra, Anastacia, Magnolia, Mortisha, Tallulah, Frank (born 1989).
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n contemporary artist. Frank was born near Singleton, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since the early 1980s. He has an abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
style with swirling colours. He uses techniques of pouring paint onto canvas, the aspect of pouring the paint being important in his work.
Frank worked in Europe and America in the 1980s, then returned to Australia in rural parts of New South Wales and Queensland. He won the 2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from the Bendigo Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery in Bendigo, founded in 1887, is one of Australia’s oldest and largest regional art galleries. The Bendigo Art Gallery hosts Australia's richest open painting prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, worth $50,000, which was launched in 2003.- Prizes :* Arthur Guy Memorial...
(2005), worth $50,000.
Frank was married to Kim leonie, Denise, Machan (born 1960). With whom he soon had his two offspring; Napoleon, Odelion, Eugene, Sebastian, Dale, Maitland, Frank (born 1988); and Iris-Ophelia Consuela, Cleopatra, Anastacia, Magnolia, Mortisha, Tallulah, Frank (born 1989).