Katya Sykes is an artist and researcher whose practice is grounded in a multidisciplinary enquiry into animism and the entanglement of living systems, where human and more-than-human narratives coalesce. Working primarily through sculpture and performance, she develops a material language that intersects ecological architectures with human cultural histories.

A central strand of her work involves a multifaceted and sustained engagement with the fungal realm, often cultivating mycelium as a living medium, through which she has become increasingly interested in fungi as agents of decentralised intelligence and material transformation. Sykes’ process-led practice involves close observation of fungal growth patterns and temporalities, opening ongoing questions around deep listening and how attentiveness to more-than-human intelligences might reorient human ways of knowing and making.

Her practice traces convergences between ecological, technological and sociological systems, engaging with deep-time perspectives and forms of change that seek to resist linear or extractive logics and ideologies of human exceptionalism, while offering glimpses of a hyperobject in constant flux.

katya.morgansykes@googlemail.com

UK