The greatest look yet at a well-known artist very few have seen up close, as the titular visionary recluse invites us in | dG1fQlRfLU5xN1pZRXM
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00:00There's a certain mystique about Dale.
00:05People know there's this amazing house somewhere in the bush and no one's quite sure what goes
00:09on there.
00:10He's a hermit.
00:12Not many people do know who Dale is.
00:18Dale Frank is one of the greatest artists Australia has ever produced.
00:22His work is defiant, sublime, there's a kind of devilry in what he does.
00:29When I first met him, he was what I imagined him to be, a likeable arsehole.
00:35What a stupid thing to say.
00:36He is irreverent.
00:37Oh, for God's sake.
00:39And if you come on the journey on his work, you're going to have a pretty wild ride.
00:45Nice title, 100 Little Arseholes, all paying homage to a true master.
00:53One of the things that defines Dale Frank is that he's never satisfied with what he's done.
00:58He's constantly told, I'm producing too much.
01:02Kind of like the Terminator, he won't stop, he won't stop, here we go fast.
01:08Dale's been hugely successful and also he spends lots of money, so he has to earn that
01:13money.
01:14Selling the work's important because I've usually doubled the overdraft and spent the
01:18money already.
01:19Working in the garden is exactly the same as working in the studio.
01:23The scale becomes different if it's a botanical garden.
01:29I don't want to plant one metre tree when I know I only have so many metres left in
01:37my life.
01:38For the last 20 years, I've had deteriorating nerve stems.
01:44Pain is so much, you can almost smell the flesh burning.
01:47If only you could live on morphine injections, I would get so much work done.
01:52I think you might be ramping it up because you can see the end coming.
01:57Next question.