Kenneth Whyte

KENNETH WHYTE

Born in 1982, Kenneth Whyte completed his Masters degree at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2007.

The works are a combination of classical oil-painted landscapes and angular pastel-hued structures. Taking two ideals of perfection, he plants his futuristic skyscrapers right in the Garden of Eden. This vision of a ‘new earth’ is not a passive one where we sit around on clouds playing harps or talking to animals; it is active, already drawing up the next blueprints for an improved tomorrow.

In our culture, self-improvement is key- but daydreams lose their power when brought down to earthy reality. Whyte does not intend his designs to ever become three dimensional, but to stay put in the realm of imagination.

Existing always in the future, these Utopian visions remain timeless, universal, perfect.

Whyte has shown throughout the UK and abroad most notably as part of a group show of British and Spanish artists in the European Parliament building in Brussels. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Supercollider Oil and acrylic on board 85 x 65 cm

Go And Tell The King That The Sky Is Falling In Oil and acrylic on canvas 129 x 99 cm

Tabula Rasa Oil and acrylic on board 100 x 75 cm

Pursuit Of The Ideal Oil and acrylic on board 80 x 80 cm

Selected Exhibitions 2013

2012 2011

2010 2009 2008

The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London Artpistol 'pop-up' Cochrane street, Glasgow Utopia in Retrospect, The Howden Park Centre, Livingston, UK Ghosts In Armour, Santa Fe Complex, New Mexico SSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh Ghosts in Armour, The European Parliament, Brussels Ironbbratz, Trongate 103, Glasgow The Affordable Art Fair, London Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh Ghosts in Armour, Newport, UK The Affordable Art Fair, London The Affordable Art Fair, London SSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh How To Run A Cotton Mill New Lanark World heritage Site

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