Esmé Nieuwendaal

collage - crossover - ceramics - painting

when I wake from a dream I still can remember, it is like a game to relate elements from this dream to stimuli I have caught during my time awake.

the seeded strawberry in my dream relates to the freckles on the hands of the person I sat in front of at a party the evening before.

while creating i experience this association process the other way around. it is like a game to catch stimuli, to bring them together, and release them transformed. symbolically and in material.

in my work I combine this free and flowy process with a steady and controlled hand.


oogstfeest - acrylics, soccer table element, crystals and chains on cotton 60 x 90
your third eye - glazed ceramics and fake eyelash
you cannot stop your walls from exhaling the hymn (for me) - acrylics and wooden board game houses on linen 40 x 50
games in/of/with eden - glazed ceramics
playground to playground - acrylics, paper and juice box on cotton 30 x 30