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Laetitzia Campbell (b. 1996) is a British-French artist with Jamaican heritage now based in London, who predominantly creates work in textiles and uses thread as a form of drawing.
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Laetitzia Campbell relocated from Paris to London in 2024 and is already making impact in the British art scene. She presented her first solo exhibition On your way home at Ed Cross Fine Art in November 2025. Early this year, in 2026, she has been included in the London Art Fair’s prestigious Platform exhibition (curated by Dr Ferren Gipson), has presented a solo show at David Parr House, Cambridge, a group show at the Paul Smith Space and later, in July, at Andelli Art Gallery, Somerset.
Currently, Campbell’s work also features in several prominent private collections, including those of Michael Rosenfeld, Robert Devereux and Brigette Romanek.
Renowned journalist, art critic and editor Sean O’Toole recently reviewed Campbell’s solo exhibition On your way home in Strauss & Co’s 2025 ‘Guide to African Art’:
‘Exploring what she calls ‘second-hand memories, ’British-French textile artist Laetitzia Campbell’s exhibition is grounded in her father’s childhood journeys in Jamaica.
Revisiting her father’s early life with thread is an act of recovery - not simply of memory but also of home. Trained at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Institut Français de la Mode, Campbell initially worked in luxury embroidery before returning to her art practice. Her haptic textile works operate like drawings and are by turns loose and improvisational, but also intricate and structured.’
Campbell’s work explores what she refers to as ‘second-hand memories' - stories, objects and gestures that have been passed down and create emotional legacies despite the inability to return to their sources. The slow and deliberate accumulation of needle marking fabric relays the artist’s central interest in time, remembering and longing. Intricate and free-flowing loose threads form compositions that hover between figuration and abstraction, engaging with the dual nature of presence and absence inherent to the recollection of the past.
Having originally learnt to sew from her mother, Campbell’s practice developed into using the domestic sewing machine as a drawing tool during her undergraduate studies. In an intricate and tactile process, Campbell manually moves fabric beneath the needle and pulls threads as she works. Her images emerge from complex layers, in which she manipulates density shifts, varies stitch types and carefully selects thread according to the desire to accentuate shine, darkness or depth. Certain works are then finished with hand stitching, or, in some cases, works are entirely hand sewn.
After studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA) and the Institut Français de la Mode (MA), Campbell worked for four years in the luxury fashion industry, belonging to major fashion houses including Saint Laurent and Hermès.
At these companies, she was primarily involved with embroidery development, assisting with the creation of collections whilst upholding the various maisons’ quality standards. These professional experiences shaped Campbell’s technical understanding of embroidery, something which has directly shaped her textile-based art practice.