Christ’s College Chapel to unveil new altarpiece

Christ's College Chapel will unveil a new altarpiece on Easter Sunday by Leverhulme Artist in Residence Tom de Freston. The service will be Anglican Choral Evensong, with special music by the college choir. It will also include a short conversation about the installation between the artist and college chaplain the Reverend Christopher Woods. Mr de Freston, who previously held the Levy Plumb Visual Arts Residency at Christ's, has been working on the paintings - entitled Deposition and Resurrection - for the past two years. He said: "The two paintings are intended to offer a binary narrative, one of rise and fall. They are made with the particular demands of the chapel in mind, and will hopefully provide a visual and spiritual fulcrum to the space." Reverend Woods spoke warmly of the paintings: "The de Freston altarpiece is a new reflection for our time on the human reality of falling to the depths of despair, yet rising again abundantly to life and hope." A catalogue has also been published to accompany the installation. It includes a foreword by Sir Nicholas Serota and essays by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, poet Ruth Padel, and poet, critic and Gates Scholar Graham Howes.