Eva Sykes is an artist currently studying MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. She works with mixed media techniques such as painting, sculpture, stop frame animation and moving image. Using these mediums she explores ideas of the self, the absurdity and humour in the darkness in life and the duality in human nature. She also uses juxtapositions to contrast seemingly comforting imagery against disturbing elements to expose contradictions in life and in people. Her work is influenced by the medieval and Renaissance period, as well as mythology and folklore. This familiar historical imagery is combined with nostalgic, kitsch and surreal elements to evoke an unsettling feeling and a nightmarish quality.