ARTIST / DESIGNER

As a multidisciplinary artist, Sandy van den Brink researches how nature sustains us not only through resources and survival, but through moments of beauty and wonder, and as the ground for social, cultural, and artistic practices that nurture our ways of living and belonging. 

Sandy’s work is an ongoing exploration of situatedness, informed by her experiences growing up within different cultural and geographical contexts. Moving between landscapes, communities, and ways of living has shaped how she observes and understands the world around her. She is drawn to moments, scenes, and objects generally considered to be mundane, and uses these to place individual narratives within a broader communal context. This reveals parallels in the needs, conditions, and desires embedded in everyday life.

Central to her practice is an understanding of humans as part of larger ecological and cultural systems. She is interested in how environments shape communities, traditions, and ways of gathering, and how these are affected when landscapes are transformed, restricted, or taken away. From this perspective, kincentricity functions as a guiding principle in her work, shaping how she relates to people, environments, and other beings around her.