“Jonathan Yeo is one of the most highly regarded and innovative portrait painters working in Britain (or, indeed, anywhere) today... Renowned for his distinctive, highly figurative canvases and striking collages, he employs a range of media and techniques to create a diverse body of work that expands the traditional parameters of portraiture. His ongoing innovations in theme and narrative and his engagement with society continue to challenge the genre of portraiture and reinvigorate it for the present era.”
Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, 2016
Jonathan spent the Covid lockdown of 2020 experimenting with new ways of painting portraits remotely. By inviting celebrated personalities such as Professor ...
This is the first sculpture to be designed with innovative virtual reality software and then realised in bronze as part of a major new exhibition at the Roya...
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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM4S2hGZDSE73458zMfiiWeqr7G9bqjWC First broadcast: 18 Sep 2013. Alastair Sooke meets portrait artist Jonathan Yeo as he prepares for a solo show at the National Portrait Gallery. The son of a Conservative MP, his subjects range from political leaders to Hollywood stars, including Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, Damien Hirst and Tony Blair.
An introduction to Jonathan's latest exhibition at the Bowes Museum, County Durham of paintings depicting cosmetic surgery
In December 2015, Eiffel started following the British artist Jonathan Yeo as he prepared for his largest exhibition to date at The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, which opened in March 2016.
His latest works, which feature in this film, would see him painting the likes of the former Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the actor and model Cara Delevingne, who he painted a series of portraits of over an eighteen month period, and the actor Kevin Spacey, whose portrait of him playing the role of President Underwood from the Netflix series House of Cards was unveiled at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC in February 2016.
In this film, which was specially commissioned by the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle to accompany the exhibition ‘Jonathan Yeo Portraits’, Yeo gives insight into the various themes he is exploring in his latest works and provides a rare glimpse into his studio practice and what it takes to make an exhibition of this scale possible.
Jonathan Yeo Studio and Studio Eiffel would like to thank Netflix for their kind permission to reproduce the footage of the unveiling of ‘Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood’.
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