Delilah Sykes is an artist working in Leeds, UK.

Rooted in tenderness, my text-based practice examines the metaphysical by grounding it in the mundane. My writing exists as artefacts rather than literary works, situating them in a praxis of conceptual art.

My work expands into assemblages that combine writing with a magpie’s eye for objects.

Sound as a phenomena is fascinating to me. I work closely with this subject, often looking to cultural or academic tradition, then re-contextualising it within the day-to-day. It’s important that the scholarly and banal are given equal weight.

Though my projects are personal, they evoke wider human experiences. The work has a quiet urgency. Gathering these experiences, phenomena, situations, is an act that saves such fragments from a world of functionality in which they may be trampled on.

Contact:

Email: delsydney@gmail.com

Instagram: @delilahsykes