It’s a deep, dark, emotional collection. Ultimately, The Charnel House is a work of great depth and imagination.
A review by R. J. Dent of The Charnel HouseIt’s so intense, so dark, so emotional, surreal, yet deeply internal, even personal.
Sabotage reviews- Hayden Westfield-BellAngie Voela on OE
Orpheus and Eurydice is the passion of her absence. Do not ‘enjoy’ this book, feel it
James Walters on OE
Tom de Freston and Kiran Milwood Hargrave’s ingenious volume expands and revitalises the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice for new audiences
Abigail Rokison-Woodall on OE
Tom de Freston’s artwork is vivid, shocking and expressive
Lydia Goehr on OE
A beautiful discourse on modern marriage with images and texts of psychological inter-penetration and comic dissonance.
Leon Burnett on OE
Visually creative, academically informed, and imaginatively conceived
Luke Kennard on OE
Exhilarating, visionary and genre-defying. A free-wheeling but ingeniously focused reimagining of Orpheus and Eurydice
Claire Trévien on OE
Ground-breaking in its creativity and the fertility of its imagination…I have little doubt that it’ll be the work against which future hybrid and collaborative endeavours are measured.
Professor Ewan Fernie on Orpheus and Eurydice
There is a radical honesty about this book, one which grabs you where it hurts and pulls you in. It’s like eavesdropping on your own repressions, and just as thrilling, disturbing and compulsive.
A Fool’s World
These paintings aren’t a sealed door, they are the open gates to the Acropolis. You just have to take a change of clothes and go on a journey for gold. You could grow fat on their ornamented innards.
The Journal Of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
one enters a danger zone—a prison-yard of meaning
