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.