Photos by Asaf Sultan
installation. She has recently completed a
BFA(Hons) in Sculpture at the National
Art School. Sykes-Smith has exhibited for
the third year in Sculpture by the Sea,
Bondi, receiving the Clitheroe Foundation
Mentorship in 2012 and the Staff Choice
Award in 2013; and Sculpture by the Sea
Cottesloe 2015. She was awarded the
People’s Choice Prize in the Sculpture at
Sawmillers Exhibition 2014; the Julian
Beaumont Sculpture Prize in 2012; the
Sculpture In The Valley People’s Choice
Award in 2011; she has recently taken part
in the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral
History Project, National Film and Sound
Archives, and has work in the Saatchi &
Saatchi Sydney collection.
Elyssa Sykes-Smith is a Sydney based
artist currently exploring the figure
through sculpture and working within the
fields of site-specific sculpture and
Elyssa is one of the artists selected for
Sculpture at Scenic World 2015