Episode 47 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is with @shaq.whyte

Shaqúelle Whyte is a London based artist currently studying an undergraduate in Fine Art at The Slade, UCL. Whyte’s practice evolves around the narrative and life of a series of characters. He depicts them traveling through different scenes and experiences, from running free in fields in a dream like scape to referencing his Grandma’s bible study groups in the domestic.

Whyte’s practice is also so much about the way he uses paint and colour to create depth. In the episode Whyte discuss the process of making moments in paintings, the shift in texture and brush stroke to make an impasto area of flesh or cloth. The energy in Whyte’s mark making comes through to allow the works to become other worldly and site between utopia and dystopia in the realm of his characters.

Whyte talks about his experience of art school and the process of re learning how to painting and make work that he has gone through. He found going back into art history and really getting to understand how and why artist such as Bacon, Rothko and many many more made art. This allowed Whyte to find his own hand writing as he put it in his practice.

Whyte is an artist who when out of the studio is always busy seeing contemporary art and a few of his favourite spots are @theforesproject @plop.residency and @theartistroomgallery and he has also exhibited with @delphiangallery and @danielraphael_gallery.

Listen to the episode to learn more about @shaq.whyte practice and the world in which this characters exist in and to see his works in person visit the @sladeschool BA show in May!