Shaquelle Whyte

Black and white photograph of the artist Shaquelle Whyte seated, in his studio with his work

Shaquelle Whyte, born in Wolverhampton, graduated from his undergraduate at The Slade school of Fine art in 2022 and the Royal Collage of Art in 2023 and is now represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.

In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium.

The figures in Whyte’s paintings act as conduits for his subconscious. Giving form to thought through paint, he generates a sense of introspection through his characters’ often averted or guarded faces. At once enigmatic and familiar, Whyte’s paintings evoke the surreal and shape the ephemeral, ultimately leaving his world open to the viewer’s own interpretation.