Exhibition
FACING UP by Jacob Yentob
30 Jun 2022 – 10 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 15:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 15:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 15:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 15:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 269 Portobello Road
- London
- W11 1LR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 52, 23, 7, 70
- Nearest Tube Stations: Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill Gate
Join us for the Preview of Jacob Yentob´s “FACING UP". Thursday, June 30 6-9 pm.
About
Jacob Yentob is a London born artist with Iraqi Jewish roots. He is largely self taught and didn’t attend art school. He has however worked with several accomplished artists assisting them in their studios.
He works across a wide range of mediums from ink to paint, writing, sound, film and photography to depict an interior world on a spectrum from calm to comic to terrifying. There is an immediacy and urgency in Yentob’s work, fuelled by a restless energy and humanity.
In this landscape of the mind, he allows the observer to experience a range of complex emotions which can be playful, provocative and profound.
There is a restlessness in the work which expresses different moods and psychic states. The artist is finding a form to express and explore anxiety and exhilaration.
He is inviting the observer to participate in that experienc