Winter Remembers April

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Winter Remembers April, Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled in homage to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard, I’ll Remember April, the exhibition honours several of Whyte’s musical heroes, from Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott-Heron to The Beatles. In this new body of work, Whyte continues to explore non-linear time – in many of his paintings, the past, present and future converge on a single point as individual figures unfold through myriad physical and psychological permutations. Although marked by a feeling of impermanence, Whyte’s work is equally engaged in the notion of circularity, especially with regards to the Black male body, positing that the concerns of the Black artist are unchanged since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton) lives and works in London. He received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2022) and an MA from the Royal College of Art (2023). Whyte had his first solo exhibition in April 2024 at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Yute, you’re gonna be fine, from which a work was acquired for The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent by The Contemporary Art Society, London. Following this, Tate Britian presented a live conversation between the artist and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe. At Frieze London 2024, his work was selected for acquisition by the Arts Council Collection, made possible by the Arts Council Collection Frieze Fund. Other recent museum collections include The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.

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