Laetitia Martinez

Biography

Laetitia Martinez is Programme Leader for BA Illustration at the British Higher School of Art & Design. She studied on the BA Fine Art: Painting programme at Ecole Supérieure des Arts et technologies de l' image, Angoulême before completing an MA’s in Communication Design at both Ecole Supérieure des Arts et technologies de l' image, Angoulême and Central Saint Martins, London. She later completed a Post Graduate teaching qualification at the Institute of Education, London. She has written features, interviews and reviews for a range of leading international magazine including American Suburb X and Metro Magazine France. Between 2009 and 2012 she ran her own production company “ Flashmama” working with a range of international clients including Julie Tippex, Bird on the Wire, Whitechapel Gallery, Jazz sur son 31, oc-tv and Proud Gallery. Her practice as as artist spans painting, illustration, photography, and moving image.

Laetitia Martinez’s research is concerned with establishing dialogues between traditional and digital technologies together with the juxtaposition of new and historical approaches to visual storytelling.

Projects

Pick a Card : Artis(an)t

An ongoing project, begun in 2021, that explores Martinez’ experiences in teaching and learning over the past twenty years through a series of lesson plans which seek to embody technical skills with artistic vision. These lesson plans combine workshops in classical technical skills with specific subjects that touch upon historical and contemporary issues, thus providing both technical and conceptual tools. The subjects covered include anthropology, storytelling, ecology, and the built environment.

Borders

An ongoing project, begun in 2022, that visually explores our relationship with the natural world in heavily urbanised settings through non-linear narrative techniques. The structure of this book is based on a rhizomatic structure with multiple points of entry. The project delves into how observational notes on our contemporary urbanised life can create lateral, decentered, and interconnected webs of relations linked by the natural presence. It is a reflection on our relationship to the natural world and our ecological perception in a time of mass human migration and ecocide.

Research Outputs