Following on from her debut solo exhibition On Your Way Home at Ed Cross Fine Art at the end of 2025, David Parr House, Cambridge (in association with Ed Cross Fine Art) presents Laetitzia Campbell's second iteration of this body of work: On Your Way Home, What Did You Find?
The David Parr House is a house museum dedicated to celebrating the Arts and Crafts workmanship and legacy of David Parr and his family. Campbell has been selected to open their artistic programme for the year, exploring the theme of Maps, Travel & Journeys. Her work will be shown alongside the Richard Hopkins Leach travel journal, in which he retraced his great-great-grandfather's 1814 route from Windsor to Cornwall.
The London-based, French-born artist Laetitzia Campbell uses her work to trace both personal and collective journeys. The title of the exhibition On Your Way Home, What Did You Find? recalls the poem that inspired this latest body of work, dedicated to her Jamaican father's journey back from school one evening. In the poem, the encroaching darkness of night becomes a metaphor for the disoriented belonging and alienation involved in trying to voyage back home after a long period of time away, only to find that it ultimately only exists in one's memories alone. As such, Campbell psychologically confronts the experience of migration and transforms its essential dislocation into a universal question about human nature: the artist acknowledges the complex human relationship to home as a sublimation of reality achieved through an evolving bric-a-brac of memories, words and constellations of objects. Home, for Campbell, is not a tangible place but rather only ever exists along the axis of time. The threads of Campbell's embroidered images spiral outwards, balancing on the precipice of unravelling - a visual embodiment of our cherished memories being akin to wavering mirages, both undeniably there and yet fallible and ultimately irretrievable.
David Parr himself, a Victorian working-class decorative artist and skilled artisan, painstakingly transformed his house into a personal canvas. In this way, the walls of David Parr House are similarly a testament to the notion of home as an emotional attitude that is achieved through the act of fabrication. It is fitting that Laetitzia Campbell's artistic exploration of the human relationship to place will find its own home amongst these walls over the coming months. The echoes of the house also reverberate through Campbell's work due to the shared histories of a commercial craft transformed into an expression of individual artistic sensibility. It is only after honing her embroidery skills within major Parisian fashion houses that Campbell committed herself to pursuing a career as an artist.
Annabelle Campbell, the Director of David Parr House, writes :
" Her pieces speak to the quiet labour of hands [...] Textile has always been a medium of memory and movement. Artists working with textile materials engage with one of humanity's oldest technologies - one intimately connected to shelter, protection, and the marking of significant moments."
Having navigated between creating textiles as objects, textiles as art and the porous boundary in between, Campbell's work materially explores our everyday involvement with visual curation. For Campbell, art and reality constitute proximate and intertwined neighbours, a relationship conducive to honest and deeply personal work.
The exhibition will be on view from 11th February to 2nd May 2026 on Wednesday to Saturday each week at 10.00am-5.00pm. David Parr House is located at 184/186 Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LW.
Please follow the link for booking information: Laetitzia Campbell: On Your Way Home, What Did You Find? | David Parr House
The exhibition is not a selling show but some of the works are available for sale through us at the following link: DAVID PARR HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE PRESENTS: LAETITZIA CAMPBELL On Your Way Home, What did you Find? | Ed Cross Fine Art
