Jack Donaldson Frame

Jack Donaldson Frame b.1983

Originally from the county of Kent, Jack Frame showed early promise winning the Triangle Award aged 15, before attending the Kent Institute of Art and Design. He went onto study Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art graduating in 2007 following an extremely successful degree show. He was awarded the GSA prize for Painting and the landscape drawing award. He is also a recipient of the Standard Life prize, and many of his works have been purchased by the friends of Glasgow School of Art. An important early work was exhibited in the coveted Mackintosh building before it was destroyed by fire in 2018. One of the early winners of the Jolomo Awards, he was recognised as a rising star in Scotland. Public examples of his work can be seen in the Standard Life building in Edinburgh, 118 Piccadilly Building in London, and Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge. He was featured in the BBC documentary ‘Glasgow Boys’ which brought his work to a wider audience along with interviews for BBC radio, public exhibitions and artist interviews. He was a contributor to the international Folkstone Triennial, and has exhibited during the Edinburgh festival. Periodically he has donated work to aid the ‘Arts’ most notably his support of Scottish Opera, and has contributed to Charity auctions including Heart of Kent Hospice and York Hill Childrens foundation, Glasgow. He has exhibited widely in the Uk and internationally to both critical and commercial acclaim.