MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: EVA SYKES - “DANNY’S FARM”
What happens when innocence rots?
When the playground turns into a theatre of appetite—plastic, shimmering, grotesque?
Eva Sykes builds her world from contradiction. The soft play area, reimagined as a site of moral collapse, becomes both a sanctuary and a slaughterhouse. Her hybrid figures—part human, part myth, part meme—move awkwardly between joy and horror, trapped inside a consumerist dream that has outlived its innocence. This is not nostalgia; it’s excavation. Sykes tears open the pink flesh of early 2000s comfort culture to expose what festers beneath: narcissism, greed, and the ache of a society pretending to play.
There’s rebellion in the craftsmanship—hand-sculpted bodies stitched with imperfection, the refusal of digital polish, the raw humour of collapse. The absurdity feels sacred, a language of survival inside the madness.
Danny’s Farm was chosen for MORE CARNAGE because it dares to play in the ruins. It laughs at the end of the world, covered in glitter and oil. It’s chaos dressed as carnival. It’s grief in a happy meal box. It’s the human condition reimagined as a grotesque pantomime—one that won’t let you look away.
ABOUT EVA SYKES
Eva Sykes is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, stop-frame animation, and installation. Her practice unearths the absurdities of human nature through the hand-crafted, the uncanny, and the grotesque. Blending classical technique with surreal humour, her work oscillates between beauty and distortion, tenderness and terror. Through deliberate imperfection, Sykes exposes the contradictions of the modern psyche—how comfort and cruelty coexist, how humour softens horror, how art can be both grotesque and divine.
