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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival: Dale Frank: Nobody’s Sweetie

A charming portrait of Dale Frank, Australia’s foremost contemporary and conceptual artist, eight weeks out from his 40th exhibition at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

When | Āhea

Sun 25 May 2025, 11.00am–12.20pm

Where | Ki hea

Soundings Theatre, Level 2 

Cost | Te utu

$23.50 – ticket does not include museum entry

Dale Franke: Nobody’s Sweetie, Director: Jenny Hicks, 2024. Duration: 107 mins

Throughout this candid biography, we learn what it means to be a professional artist. The stakes are high in the art world, and Frank spends as lavishly as he creates.

His paintings fund other colourful exploits: his ever-evolving rural estate where he lives amidst the largest private Natural History Collection in Australia, and the building of a 50-hectare exotic arid-zone botanical garden in his backyard.

Dale Franke: Nobody’s Sweetie is part of the Wellington Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival.

Still from Dale Franke: Nobody’s Sweetie, 2024