Selected Solo Shows:
2022
From Darkness, No20 Arts, London
2018
Lush HQ, London
Old Fire Station, Oxford
2017
Stowe, National Trust (Demons Land)
Ashmolean Museum (Demons Land)
Maps (Medicine Unboxed), Cheltenham
2016
Battersea Arts Centre – permanent installation
47/49 Tanner Street – London
RSC (The Other Place): Birmingham University Creative Festival
Bodleian Library: Shakespeare’s Dead
2014
Orpheus and the Minotaur, Bresse Little, London
Frontiers (Medicine Unboxed), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham.
2013
Charnel House, Bresse Little, London
Paintings After Shakespeare, The Globe Theatre, London
Voice (Medicine Unboxed), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham
2012
Scavengers at Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Tokyo
On Theatre at Breese Little Gallery, London
Shakespeare Paintings at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
The Golem at Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2011
On Falling at Frameless Gallery, London
Scavengers at the British Shakespeare Association Conference, Cambridge
Scavengers at the Birthplace Trust, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Deposition (permanent installation) at Christ’s College Chapel, Cambridge
The Fall of the Rebel Angels at Michaelhouse Chancel, Cambridge
2010
Exiles: The Brick Lane Gallery, London
Fallen With Him: St. Peters Church, Kettles Yard
Between somewhere and nowhere: Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
Obsessed by images of humanity on the very edge of disintegration, Tom de Freston is audacious enough to convey our most haunted fears about a world struggling for survival in the twenty-first century.
Richard Cork
Awards / Residencies:
2013 – 2018
Artistic Director, Medicine Unboxed
2016 – 2022
AHRC/TORCH funding for Demons Land
2016
Birmingham University Creative Fellow
Saboteur Award winner for ‘A Fool’s Worlds’
Arts Council GFA for OE exhibition and performances
Battersea Arts Centre and Guardian Artists Bedrooms commission
Arts Council GFA for OE film
2015
Saboteur Award winner for The Charnel House.
2012
Artist in Residence, The Expansionists- Whitstable
Hatley Artist in Residence, Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD)
2010 – 2011
Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Cambridge University
2009 – 2011
Artist in Residence, The Leys
2008 – 2009
Levy Plumb Visual Arts Residency, Christ’s College
Tom de Freston is an artist based in Oxford with his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. His practice is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds, combining paintings, film and performance into immersive visceral narratives.
