Nancy Faas

Nancy Faas is a multidisciplinary artist who creates worlds full of stories, symbolism, and meaning. From her studios in the Netherlands and France, she brings together diverse disciplines in a body of work where art, design, and storytelling are seamlessly intertwined. Her work moves between sculpture, object design, and installations, in which she translates classical influences into a contemporary, personal visual language. Nancy graduated in 2008 from the Amsterdam University of the Arts, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art & Design as well as Art Education. In addition to her independent artistic practice, she is active as a museum educator and guide at the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands, where she shares her passion for art and art history with a wide audience.

Her artistic signature is characterized by a love for classical forms, the craftsmanship of bronze casting, and a deep-rooted fascination with stories from the past. She draws inspiration from the still life’s of the Dutch Golden Age, the symbolism of mythical figures, and female archetypes. In her bronze table pieces, sculptures, and installations, she brings together objects such as shells, lobsters, and doves into layered compositions full of references to themes such as strength, vulnerability, transience, and desire.

With her work, Nancy Faas not only builds tangible objects but complete worlds where beauty, mysticism, and seduction merge. Her sculptures and objects are presented internationally and have been exhibited in, among others, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, and Saint-Tropez, where her work offers a contemporary ode to womanhood, history, and the narrative power of art.

A head full of stories and a high degree of creative urge; that characterizes artist Nancy Faas. She finds inspiration for her bronze sculptures everywhere: in cities, churches, history, but also in people and nature. The intriguing compositions that she composes into still lifes are purposefully arranged and executed down to the smallest detail. Her works consist of objects that she deliberately searches for, or shapes herself. Objects that have lived, that have been touched, as Nancy describes. Objects with a soul. Her bronzes exude nostalgia, a longing, stories from the past or a story from the future. Nancy obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Design at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2008.