Poor Tom
- Location
- Michel-Saint Denis Rehearsal Room, The Other Place
- Dates
- Thursday 9 June (11:00) - Saturday 11 June 2016 (18:00)
An installation of paintings by Creative Fellow Tom de Freston (Department of Film and Creative Writing), inspired by Shakespeare’s Poor Tom.
Tickets are not required
A private view and wine reception will take place from 18:00-19:00 on Thursday 9 June.
The exhibition is open from 11:00-19:00 on 9 and 10 June and 10:00-18:00 on 11 June.
Artist profile
Tom de Freston is represented by Breese Little Gallery (London), with whom he has had four solo shows and achieved significant critical success.
He is currently artist-in-residence at Medicine Unboxed, a Wellcome Trust-funded organisation that explores the links between art, the humanities and medicine.
Tom has been awarded various residencies, these included the Levy Plumb Visual Arts residency at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2008-2009), a Leverhulme-funded residency at Cambridge University to make paintings inspired by Milton’sParadise Lost (2010-11) and the Hatley Residency at C4RD (2011). In 2012 he represented the UK at the World Event Young Artists as part of the cultural Olympiad. His work is well represented in public and private collections, and has been reviewed or featured in the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, Dazed Digital, I.D. Elephant Magazine described him as ‘a central part of the New School of London’.
This event is part of Page, Stage and Screen which takes place 9-11 June in Stratford upon Avon