Laetitzia Campbell is a British-French artist of 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 returning to 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.

Her work, which combines technical mastery of her medium with rare lyricism, explores her own as well as what she calls “second-hand memories”: emotions passed down through objects, stories, and gestures, and the quiet ways we try to hold onto them. Her first body of work On your way home is inspired by her father’s journey home as a schoolboy in Jamaica. Subsequent series continue to meditate on fleeting yet somehow eternal nature of moments.

LAETITZIA CAMPBELL