Laetitzia Campbell: On Your Way Home, What Did You Find?
Our 2026 programme opens with a solo exhibition by a British-French textile artist Laetitzia Campbell, who has Jamaican heritage, presented in collaboration with Ed Cross Fine Art.
On Your Way Home, What Will You Find? draws on Campbell's father's childhood journey home from school in Jamaica, using that daily walk as a metaphor for returning to the bittersweet moments that shape our sense of home.
Shown alongside the Richard Hopkins Leach travel journal, the exhibition explores how personal journeys echo across generations. Just as the late Ric Leach retraced his great-great-grandfather's 1814 route from Windsor to Cornwall, Campbell maps the emotional terrain of inherited memory.
Campbell works predominantly in textiles, using thread as a form of drawing. Her work is intricate yet free-flowing, with loose threads acting like sketch lines – forming compositions that hover between figuration and abstraction, suggesting movement, feeling, and the passage of time.
Like David Parr, who applied his professionally honed decorative skills to his own home, Campbell has reclaimed the intricate techniques learned through years in the luxury fashion industry as tools for deeply personal creative expression. Her work explores what she describes as 'second-hand memories': emotions passed down through objects, stories and gestures, and the quiet ways we try to hold onto them.
