{"product_id":"dale-frank-the-days-past-quicklyas-if-he-had-nothing-to-anticipate-2011-160x120cm-madf11001","title":"Dale Frank | 'The Days Past Quicklyas If He Had Nothing To Anticipate, 2011' | 160x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e MADF11001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dale Frank\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Days Past Quicklyas If He Had Nothing To Anticipate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hunter Valley, NSW\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Varnish And Pigment On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160x120cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDale Frank has worked with poured varnish since the mid-1990s, moving from near-monochrome fields into saturated colour from 2002 onward. The paint is never brushed into shape so much as released - tilted, pooled and left to find its own paths across the surface, so that the finished picture is really a record of chemistry and gravity rather than a drawn image. Frank has always been clear that these works are not pictures of anything; they are demonstrations of how his materials behave when he lets them move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDale Frank is one of Australia's most prominent contemporary abstract painters. Born in Singleton in the Hunter Valley in 1959, he won a Red Cross art award at sixteen (presented by John Olsen), left for Europe and the United States at nineteen, and showed at the Biennale of Sydney in 1982 and the Aperto of the Venice Biennale in 1984 before returning to live in Australia in 1998. From the mid-1990s varnish became his principal material - first in near-monochrome, then from 2002 in saturated colour, poured, tilted and layered so that the paint's own flow and chemistry make the image. He later moved from canvas to Perspex, which lets the pooled, glassy surfaces read as objects as much as pictures. Beyond painting his practice has taken in found-object sculpture, performance and drawing, but it is the biomorphic varnish works, with their marbled, molten depth, that he is best known for. He won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in 2005, had a survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2000 and showed in the 17th Biennale of Sydney in 2010, and in 2014 gave 85 works valued at four million dollars to the National Gallery of Australia - the largest gift by a living artist since Arthur Boyd's in 1975. He is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 and Neon Parc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Duggan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67610582548713,"sku":"MADF11001","price":60000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/MADF11001-Dale_Frank-2011-The_Days_Past_Quicklyas_If_He_Had_Nothing_To_Anticipate-160x120cm-square-web.jpg?v=1790940008","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/dale-frank-the-days-past-quicklyas-if-he-had-nothing-to-anticipate-2011-160x120cm-madf11001","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}