Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce that Shaqúelle Whyte's Form i: Under the lonely sky (2024) has been acquired at Frieze London by the Arts Council Collection, made possible by the Arts Council Collection Frieze Fund. Launched at Frieze London in 2023, the Fund presents a remarkable opportunity for selected artists' work to join one of the most widely circulated national collections of modern and contemporary British art.
In this work, Whyte refuses to stage a visual hierarchy between his figures, drawing our eye rapidly across the composition from one interlocked limb to another. Bodies stream from right to left, suspended in movement as a coursing bull drives the pack onwards. The scene is ambiguous yet commanding, the figures conduits of the artist’s subconscious, and experiments in motion and paint.
The work will be on view throughout the week at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Booth A21, at Frieze London.
Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton) lives and works in London. He received a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art and an MA at the Royal College of Art. In April 2024 he had his first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Yute, you’re gonna be fine. Following on from this, Whyte was included in a live conversation with art historian Alayo Akinkugbe at Tate Britain, and a work was acquired from his solo exhibition by The Contemporary Art Society, London, for The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. He is currently included in Being There, a group exhibition at No1 Royal Crescent, Bath, UK. Recent group shows include Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2024); Buffer, Guts Gallery, London (2022); and Seasons in the City, curated by Artuner, Palazzo Capris, Turin (2022). Whyte has taken part in residencies at The Fores Project, London (2022); and the Denise Israel Scholarship, Rome (2021), amongst others.
