Laetitzia Campbell is a British-French artist with Jamaican heritage now based in London. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA) and the Institut Français de la Mode (MA), and worked for four years in the luxury industry in embroidery before concentrating exclusively on her own art practice.
Campbell works predominantly in textiles, using thread as a form of drawing, her work intricate yet free-flowing, with loose threads, like sketch lines, forming part of compositions that hover between figuration and abstraction, suggesting movement, thought, feelings, intuitions, the passage of time, connections.
She explores what she calls “second-hand memories”: emotions passed down through objects, stories, and gestures, and the quiet ways we try to hold onto them. On your way home is inspired by her father’s journey home as a schoolboy in Jamaica.
His way home becomes a metaphor for going back to bitter-sweet moments. Time has passed and these moments are no longer just memories, they are in fact what “home” has become.