The Hag is our latest FRAME Edition in collaboration with artist Donna Huddleston. 

Launching 12 September, coinciding with Huddleston’s forthcoming exhibition at White Cube Mason’s yard. It is a polymer gravure etching of a humorous hag character, and housed in a carved walnut frame influenced by early 20th century black forest hand-carving and storybook aesthetic.

"The Hag is an extension of the work I was doing in my last show Donna Huddleston: In Person. Every drawing in that show I saw as role play, a version of myself in character. The Hag became one of those characters. It was like my performed-self and the Hag was one of those characters, she was another version of myself.

I think a lot about the framing of an artwork when I am making it... I think about what materials would work best, the world that I’m in as I’m making a drawing, some of them take many months. I have always really loved that ‘Witches’ House’ aesthetic, that dark wooden hand-carved almost ‘black forest’ element of it was perfect, so it felt like it wanted to be made. It felt very rewarding, like a very easy collaboration." - Donna Huddleston.

• Materials: Photopolymer gravure etching on Somerset Velvet Antique paper with hand painted elements in hand carved walnut frame.

• Frame: Hand carved Walnut frame

• Size: 458 mm (h) x 412 mm (w) 

This FRAME Edition is limited to 10 pieces, £900+VAT (£1,080 incl.).

Insured Domestic & International Shipping available for an additional fee. Free local collection from FRAME London available.

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About the Artist:

Donna Huddleston

B. Ireland 1970

Donna Huddleston grew up in Australia, where her multidisciplinary studies led her to Sydney’s National Art School and the National Institute of Dramatic Art. These influences are evidenced in her meticulously hand-rendered artworks which are often executed in pencil, Caran d’ache, watercolour, graphite and more recently, acrylic paint and airbrush. Huddleston’s works are almost dream tableaux; rich with visual references including film, theatre, literature and design, which marry with autobiographical influences within the work. The presentation and display of her works on paper, which start life attached to her studio wall, is very much a part of her creative process. Her forthcoming exhibition, Company, opens this week at White Cube Mason’s Yard.

Notable recent solo exhibitions include The Exhausted Student, Drawing Room, London 2019, and In Person, Simon Lee gallery, London 2022. Huddleston’s work is included in public collections in New York, London, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.