Dale Frank

Chicken Soup

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present Chicken Soup, an exhibition of new work by Dale Frank.

Exhibition Dates: 17 April – 16 May 2026

When form becomes content, when painting is about painting, distinct material specificities start to matter less and less. Marks and words are meant only to stir some general, formal affect; they do not cavort with our surprisingly emotional responses to the peculiarities of the material world by trying to represent it. Every slick plastic surface will only reflect us back at ourselves, promising a superficial agency in completing the image yet impenetrably rebounding any attempt at interpretation. These formalist paintings, hermetically obsessed with themselves, duly mirror our own narcissistic fantasies. They leave us abandoned, safe in the inertia of our own company, transfixed by our reflection in a petrifying pool of resin.

–Colm Guo-lin Peare, ‘Dale Frank’, Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press Limited, 2026.

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Lionel and Jake have an enormous collection of Christmas albums and singles, 2025
colour pigments in epoxyglass, epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 260 cm

He always mistakenly thought he was being humorous, that he was funny, and that is why people liked him, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

Jeff and Adam have a wonderfull family having over the last 20 years found four boys from three States, always on Christmas holidays, and two have turned out to be good lookers, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

The men he befriended he always drugged three times, to get them home, to have sex with them, and to kill them, always the way he wanted, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

From previous encounters he had exhausted all possible reasons, every imaginable and amazingly unimaginable reasons as to why he could not have sex with John, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

Fiona got a second amex after her third labiaplasty so she could keep track of the costs and the little extras, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

Between the cheeks dreaming of another continent over the horizon, gripping, swimming in the streets, he always watched other mens backsides walking, coveting as watchers do, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

Lighter the sun slowly rose really blinding, blackening their mood, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

She needed to declutter her life and her bedroom, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was not lonely at all, he just wished his dick was twice the size it was, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 150 cm

He was not lonely at all, daily surviving on prescribed marijana gummies, muscle supplements, and spending more hours than he should at the Community Pool Gym mens change room, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 150 cm

He really wasn’t lonely, he just hated anyone who stayed a moment longer than needed, 2026
colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 150 cm

He lived in the shadow of his own flickering diminishing light, 2025
colour powder pigments in Easycast, Epoxyglass, on perspex
160 x 120 cm

A dead homeless man simulating bending to reach perfection, 2026
flexible polyurethane foam, wire, cloth, broom
165 x 170 x 90 cm

He was scared of his own shadow, 2026
flexible polyurethane foam, wire, cloth
175 x 120 x 100 cm

Wired, he never got to sleep in, 2026
flexible polyurethane foam, wire, cloth
140 x 115 x 102 cm

Dale Frank Chicken Soup
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2026

Group Show, SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art
National Art School Gallery, 2026

Group Show, Good as Gold
Rockhampton Museum of Art, 2025-26

Dale Frank Alicia’s thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024

Dale Frank Growers and Showers
National Art School Gallery, 2024

Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024

Dale Frank Jacob took seven minutes before he could piss
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023

Dale Frank this is a floatation device, this is not a life saving device
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2022

Dale Frank The Omega Variant Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2021

Dale Frank Shaun taught piano
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2020

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019

Group Show, The Like Button
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018-19

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018

Group Show, State of Play
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017

Group Show, Shut Up and Paint
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016-17

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016

Dale Frank SABCO PEROXIDE
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015

Dale Frank Toby Jugs
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014

Dale Frank Nobody's Sweetie
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2013

Dale Frank WACKY DUCK FLUFFY TOM
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011

Dale Frank Charlie Cox
123 Albert Street, Brisbane, 2011

Dale Frank THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010

Dale Frank Ice Age
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010

Dale Frank Some Boring Paintings
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008

Dale Frank Sore Throat
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005

Dale Frank Modern Art Paintings For Sale
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2004

Dale Frank Views from the Bruce Highway
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003

Group Show, Dirty Dozen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002

Group Show, The First 20 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2001

Group Show, All Stars
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2000

Dale Frank John Cougar Mellencamp A Sydney Lap Dog the Perfect Drug
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2000

Dale Frank Dale Frank: Ecstasy 20 Years of Painting
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2000

Dale Frank A few paintings in the small room
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1999

Dale Frank Paintings
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1998

Dale Frank MOVIE SHOW: new collage
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997

Dale Frank Pool room
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1996

Dale Frank Social Realism
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1996

Group Show, Stockroom
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1995

Dale Frank I'm Only Dancing
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1995

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992

Dale Frank Recent small drawings
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992

Group Show, Christmas show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991

Dale Frank Recent Work
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991

Group Show, The 1980–1990 show, A Selection of Work from our Stockroom
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990-91

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1989

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986

Group Show, The Forbidden Object
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986

Dale Frank
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1985

Group Show, Australian Visions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1984

Dale Frank Death
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1984

Group Show, Dreams and Nightmares
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1984

Group Show, D'un autre continent: l'Australie, le reve et le reel (From another continent : Australia, the dream and the real)
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983

Dale Frank Punchline
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1983

Group Show, Pirates & Mutineers
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1983

Dale Frank Self portraits
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1982