ARTWORKS

Inflection / Ascension, 29.01.25 - 01.02.25

Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art

Entropic Resistance 

153 cm x 58 cm 

Rust, Vinegar, Canvas, Steel 

© Esmé Matthews

Balanced Decay 

45 cm x 40 cm 

Cloth, Plaster, Rust, Wire 

© Esmé Matthews

Found Metal Manipulation 

60 cm x 44 cm 

Salt, Unidentified Metal Alloy, Concrete Composite

© Esmé Matthews

 

GDFA Studio Exhibition - Chelsea College of Art

Return (2024)

Rusted Steel, Aluminum Wire, Water Mixable Oil Paint on Hessian

88 x 44 cm, 13 x 5 cm

© Esmé Matthews and Hyoungwoo Cho

“First Day of My Life” (2024)

Oil Pastel on Canvas

40 cm x 50 cm

© Danielle Towers

Untitled (2023)

Acrylic Paint on Grout Slab

29 cm x 24 cm

© Danielle Towers

“Spirit” (2024)

Oil Pastel and Oil Paint on Canvas

30 cm x 45 cm

© Danielle Towers

I am a contemporary artist whose practice explores the tension between creation and decay, focusing on material transformation and the natural processes of entropy. Working primarily with industrial materials, I am investigating the life cycle of these objects—examining how they shift between states of order and disorder, structure and ruin.

By embracing deterioration and entropy as part of my creative process, I am questioning capitalist notions of value, permanence, and utility, instead highlighting transformation as a form of both resistance and renewal. Ultimately, my work is rooted in a rejection of industrialization and modernization contrasted with my desire to return to the natural world.

ESMÉ MATTHEWS