Sandy Little is a South African-born visual artist and illustrator whose practice is rooted in drawing and digital art. She completed her Honours degree in Fine Art at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein in 2012, where she specialised in both traditional and digital mediums. In addition to her formal training in the visual arts, Little pursued three years of philosophical study, which continues to inform the conceptual framework of her practice.

Over the past twelve years, Little has worked as a lecturer in art and design, culminating in her transition to curriculum development for Graphic Design in 2022. This academic trajectory has deeply shaped her reflective and research-driven approach to making. Her work explores the complexities of the feminine experience and the performative aspects of gender, often employing animal imagery as a symbolic conduit for these themes. Through this visual language, she navigates the intersections between instinct, identity, and embodiment.

Lyrics—drawn from her parallel engagement with music—serve as both a conceptual anchor and compositional benchmark in her artmaking process. These lyrical fragments are interwoven with visual elements, creating layered works that resist fixed interpretation while inviting intimate and affective encounters.

Now based in Bristol, UK, Little has committed herself fully to her practice as an independent artist and illustrator. Her recent work continues to explore questions of gender, power, and transformation through a distinctly lyrical and symbolic visual vocabulary.

In her illustration line 'Free Range Daughters', Little reflects on this contradiction, interrogating the complex intersections of gender, surveillance, and inherited power structures. Through symbolic imagery and layered narrative, the works become a site of mourning, resistance, and ultimately, reclamation.