Tom De Freston is a British visual artist and writer best known for his focus on images that are monolithic in both scale and ambition. His practice explores the vagaries of human experience and is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds – combining paintings, films and writing into immersive visceral narratives. His latest a series of large-scale paintings are the subject of a documentary that deep dives into the collaboration between him and with Professor Ali Souliman – a Syrian intellectual blinded in a bomb blast in the 90s, who muses on the nature of trauma via interaction with de Freston’s artworks. The work ‘Crack’ from this series has been supplied exclusively as an edition to House Collective Editions.
Tom De Freston is a British visual artist and writer best known for his focus on images that are monolithic in both scale and ambition. His practice explores the vagaries of human experience and is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds – combining paintings, films and writing into immersive visceral narratives. His latest a series of large-scale paintings are the subject of a documentary that deep dives into the collaboration between him and with Professor Ali Souliman – a Syrian intellectual blinded in a bomb blast in the 90s, who muses on the nature of trauma via interaction with de Freston’s artworks. The work ‘Crack’ from this series has been supplied exclusively as an edition to House Collective Editions.