Saskia Takens-Milne is a conceptual artist of Dutch and Canadian heritage and a graduate of Chelsea School of Art (2006) and Glasgow School of Art (2000). Drawing on philosophy and psychology, Takens-Milne’s multidisciplinary pieces are thought-provoking invitations to engage with urgent contemporary political questions. She lives and works in South London.
A Traumatic Encounter with the Real, 2022 A permanent tattoo of a degraded children’s Superhero temporary tattoo, on the artist’s arm. (Click image for more information)
Untitled 1.1, 2022, Video Montage (Click image to play video)
Machismo, 2022, Embroidery on Found Linen (Click image for detail)
2022, Kinetic Sculpture (Click image for video)
Big Dick Energy (WIP) 2024
2023, Video Montage (Click image to play video)
Involuntary Feminist, 2023
Postcards from the Apocalypse (and others) 2024
Diptych Series, 2016-2023, Digital Photographs (Click image for more)
2024, Digital Print
I Didn't Confront Him, Series, 2022- . Montage of Found Images. (Click for more)
I Hold This Truth, 2023. Embroidery on Vintage Handkerchief
Necessitous (Wo)Men Are Not Free, 2023. Cross Stitch on Aida
2023, Digital Photograph
He Said, She Dead, 2023
2020, Painted Photographs
Cement Groaning, 2022, Book (Click image to see inside)
2021, Embroidery on Photo by C. S. Bull, 1939
2021, Knitted Dishcloth
Allegedly, 2023
2020, Video Montage (Click image to play video)
2019, Digital Print
2022, Digital Print
2020, Embroidery (for Vanessa Marr's 'Women & Domesticity' Project)
2021, Embroidered Postcard
Asking For It, 2020, Embroidery
2020, Embroidered Postcard
2020, Embroidered Hair (Artist's Own)
2019, Digital Print
2019, Cross-Stitch
2018, Drawing on Image from 'The Birds', Hitchcock, 1963
'Class 2', 2018, Photomontage (Found Images)
2018, Cross-Stitch Pattern (Click image for full pattern)
'Score for Canned Laughter', 2017, Musical Score
2017, Biro Drawing on Photo by C. S. Bull, 1939. Digital Photograph and Ink.
2017, Cross-Stitch
Marnie, 2016, Video Montage (Click image to play video)
Margate Manson (Manson Family, Los Angeles Courthouse, 29th March 1971) 2015, Photomontage (Found Images)
2015, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
2012, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
2012, Photomontage (Found Images)
2011, Video Montage (Click image to play video)
'And When You Die I Will Follow You With a Broken Heart... and Vice Versa', 2010, Digital Photograph
2010, Digital Print
Quiet Man, 2009, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
'The Birds', 2009, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
No One Will Ever Love You Until You Love Yourself – After Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, 2008, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
2008, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
After Psycho, 2007, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
Kiss Me Deadly, 2007, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
2007, Digital Video (Click image to play video)
2005, Digital Print
2007, Digital Print
2006, Digital Print
2005, Digital Print
2006, Digital Print
2007, Digital Print
2007, Digital Print
2006, Digital Print
2007, Digital Print
2009, Digital Print
2011, Digital Print
2006, Silver Gelatine Photographs
2006, Digital Print
2010 & 2005, Polaroids and Pigment Ink
2003, Polaroid