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.

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.