Delilah Sykes is an artist working in Leeds, UK.

Rooted in tenderness, my sound-based practice examines the metaphysical by grounding it in the mundane. My work expands into performance, writing, installation and film. Facilitation is also a key part of my practice, working with young people and community groups in a way that centres alternative creative practices and co-creation.

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.