WHAT WERE THE YOUNGER DALE FRANK’S INTERESTS?
David Bowie, Lou Reed, Television’s album Marquee Moon, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, Beethoven, geology, geography, maps of all kinds, European history, Napoleon, Hitler, Modern Art, all modern architecture (except Frank Lloyd Wright), Shaun Cassidy, physics, astronomy, Kenya, Tanganyika, Mark Rothko, everything on television, all movies, astrology (especially Virgo with Scorpio rising), exotic gardening, Dunhill and Kent cigarettes, money.
Were you inspired by any teachers?
No. From the age of 15, my high school art teacher Robert Robertson, also a painter, would enter my name in state art prizes. After a time, I was invited and exhibiting in group exhibitions (Wynne Prize, AGNSW; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle). I was invited to the Mildura Sculpture Triennial when I was 16. I was hiring buses, organising bus…