“Working as a model is fast-paced, but in my work as an artist, I focus on slowing down and observing the often-overlooked details of daily life. Time plays an important role; I am fascinated and inspired by how marks of human touch and presence appear. I try to connect these - at times - almost invisible traces. We leave parts of ourselves behind wherever we go.”

Saskia de Brauw (b. 1981, Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist working across weaving, installation, text, and image-making. With an MFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, her practice is rooted in the collection and transformation of found materials and objects gathered on walks in urban and natural environments. The basis of her work circles around an evolving archive comprised of unique paper fragments, mirrors, thread, packaging, playing cards, feathers and other discarded elements.

Through juxtaposition and reconfiguration, de Brauw examines how objects carry the trace of time, usage and memory. Discarded or overlooked materials are repositioned as formal and conceptual agents. Her woven works translate this archival approach into structure, interlacing fragments and fibres into layered surfaces and sculptural compositions. Weaving operates both as material process and organising principle, connecting disparate elements while retaining their individual histories.

Saskia de Brauw has exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (UK), and group exhibitions at Red Hook Labs (US), Arundel Gallery (UK), Foam (NL), Galerie Maj van der Linden (DE), Pont aux Choux (FR), and India Mahdavi Project Room (FR). She has also published several artist books, including The Accidental Fold (2016) and Ghosts Don’t Walk In Straight Lines (2018).

Alongside her artistic practice, she is internationally recognised for her longstanding career as a model, in which she positions the body as a medium for framing, projection, and transformation.