Laetitia Yhap (born 1941) is a British artist born in St Albans and who studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the British Council and the New Hall Art Collection at the University of Cambridge.

Hales, gallery located in Bethnal Green presents Keeping Company, Laetitia Yhap’s debut exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features works by the artist staging fishermen in various mundane situations, each made on unique shaped panels, individually hand made by Yhap. The show runs until 30th September. Painted in Hastings, UK, a seaside town Yhap has called home since the late 1960s, the works speak to universal themes that are universal: human relationships, to ecology and the shifting landscape of labour. The works inspire nostalgia and loneliness through pastel colours and naive depictions.

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Images: Installation view of Laetitia Yhap, Keeping Company, 2 – 30 September 2023