Sasha Krautman (b. 1995) was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After completing her degree in architecture and interior design, she travelled the world for nearly a decade running an architecture visualisation studio, until she found her new home, love and family in Australia. She has been making art throughout as a way to reconnect with the physical world, developing her style and technique, and exhibiting across Australia, USA, Asia and Europe. She now works and lives in Sydney, spending a few weeks a year with her family in Russia.
Sasha's work captures nature through landscapes and zoomed-in textures, integrating them with figurative scenes and storytelling. Through gentle introspection and attention to detail, her work invites viewers to reconnect with the physical world outside of the screen life that occupies so much of our time.
​Visually it has two directions: the main approach combines two or more images into a checkerboard pattern, where each square looks like a tiny abstraction, but together they compose two distinct melodies that sing in harmony with each other. It engages our brain and eyes in an exciting play of shifting between two scenes—first viewing them separately, then noticing similarities and crossovers, and finally seeing how they merge into one another. Sasha finds the most joy in exploring visual freedom within the strict structure of geometric forms, a framework that allows her body of work to remain cohesive regardless of the subjects she chooses.
The second direction is round miniature works capturing vast landscapes with a tiny 'hero' walking through each of them, inspired by the Jane Austen quote "What are men to rocks and mountains?"
Having developed her own drawing technique, Sasha works exclusively with coloured pencils. Mounting paper to wooden panels, she hand-frames each piece with vintage leather, adding a distinctive finish without using conventional framing. This handmade approach—from the meticulous pencil work to the leather finishing—reinforces her commitment to slow, tactile creation, inviting viewers to pause and engage with art that rewards patient, careful observation.
AWARDS + EXHIBITIONS
BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE EMERGING ARTIST AWARD FINALIST
LLOYD REES EMERGING ARTIST AWARD FINALIST
2025 Dec 3-7 AQUA MIAMI group show with Arch Enemy Arts Gallery
2025 Dec Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award Finalists | Gallery Lane Cove, Cove + Co Shop, Sydney, Australia
2025 The Other Art Fair | White Bay Cruise terminal, Sydney, NSW, Australia (May)
2024 The Other Art Fair | White Bay Cruise terminal, Sydney, NSW, Australia (May)
2024 April Group show | Artemisia Gallery, Windson, VIC, Australia
2024 July-August "Ephemeral" Group show | Nanny Goat Gallery, Petaluma, CA, USA
2023 Sept, The Holy Art Fair | The Truman Brewery, London, UK
2022 July, Local Artists Group exhibition, 'The Flow', Bali
2021 Dec, Christmas Event Group exhibition, 'The Flow', Bali
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Blog
2023 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Issue #43
2023 Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
2023 Boooooooom Array Digital Zine
2024 Visual Art Journal + Interview