Shaqúelle Whyte: Shattered Dreams

Shaqúelle Whyte, Blackbirds singing in the dead of night, 2025. Collection Wolverhampton Art Gallery, purchased with support from the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Contemporary Art Society, City of Wolverhampton Council and Kemal and Tala Cingillioglu, 2025/26. © the artist.

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce the acquisition of Shaqúelle Whyte's Blackbirds singing in the dead of night (2025) by Wolverhampton Art Gallery, which will present Shattered Dreams, the artist's first institutional solo exhibition, from 18 April - 31 August 2026.

Shattered Dreams brings together six paintings created by Whyte between 2023 and 2026, presented for the first time in his hometown of Wolverhampton. Whyte's connection to Wolverhampton Art Gallery is deeply personal. Visits to the museum during his youth played a formative role in nurturing his artistic ambitions. Of his upcoming exhibition, he says, "I’m Blakenhall born and bred, and it’s an honour and a privilege to bring my work back to the city. I hope that in a small way I am able to fly the flag for what the Black Country represents wherever my journey may take me".

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Wolverhampton

18 April - 31 August 2026

Free entry

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