At the Pub With… is a new video series from the Contemporary Art Society, inviting contemporary artists to pull up a chair and join us for informal chats at The Lady Ottoline in Bloomsbury.
Filmed in an area closely associated with the Society’s own origins, the series aims to create space for candid, open-ended discussions around artistic practice, process, and the conditions that shape contemporary art today. Each episode brings viewers to the table with leading and emerging artists, offering insight into the ideas, references and lived experiences that inform their work.
In keeping with the Contemporary Art Society’s commitment to supporting living artists and expanding public access to contemporary art, At the Pub With… raises a glass to conversation as a route into understanding how art is made, circulated and encountered today.
Our first episode features Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton, UK), a London-based painter whose work explores the human condition through ambiguous, cinematic scenes featuring anonymous figures. Whyte typically constructs imagined environments using loose, expressive brushwork and layered compositions to evoke moments that feel both intimate and unresolved. The CAS is pleased to have acquired Whyte's paintings In an embroiled fashion (2025) for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Blackbirds singing in the dead of night (2025) for Wolverhampton Art Gallery. His upcoming solo exhibition, Shaqúelle Whyte: Shattered Dreams, is at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 18 April until 31 August 2026.
