This Deposition publication provides insight into the making, meaning and wider context of the works, showing de Freston’s studies and works on related themes. The range of figures who have contributed writing to this catalogue is testament to the significance of the project.

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“De Freston’s solution is a powerful and original one: it is (put very simply) to juxtapose a passive and an active image in a physical medium that seems to be like deep water.” The Most Revd Rowan Williams

“The installation of de Freston’s work creates a harmonious celebration in a Chapel where art, architecture, prayer and music come together to provide a deeply moving spiritual experience” Sir Nicholas Serota

Sir Nicholas Serota provides a foreword, Rowan Williams considers the spiritual relevance in de Freston’s altarpiece paintings, Graham Howes considers their relationship to the context of Christ’s Chapel, Ruth Padel puts them into an art historical context and Jaya Savige gives insight into two other paintings which tackle religion in a Miltonic form. Alongside this is a are two interviews by Pablo de Gandia and a specially-commissioned poem responding to the chapel paintings by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.