Tom de Freston’s body of work is a chaotic-seeming world of the grotesque and the shocking.
Christiana Spens- The QuietusAs many of de Freston’s paintings, this one shows a duet performed by four and a quartet performed by two.
Professor Lydia Goehr- essay for Routledge bookMatilda Bathurst, The Millions
Perhaps, to submit to the ripping is the most honest way to live: to enter the rupture and look death in the eye. What we see is a living hell. What we see is the world we live in.