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.


artist in residence

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-03-2023 t/m 31-05-2023
  • Location: foundation bad rotterdam,
  • a three-month residency at foundation bad in rotterdam-south, which was mainly about researching the origins of my visual language and learning about working with ceramics. during this period i participated in the group show 'we are all guests #11'.
  • https://www.foundationbad.nl/

artist in residence

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-12-2023 t/m 30-04-2024
  • Location: cool clay collective @ gantelstudio's, rotterdam,
  • a five-month residency which is all about working with ceramics. experimenting with the medium through self-created molts, different kinds of clay and glazing techniques, to then combine the works with other media including aluminum, epoxy resin and textile.
  • https://coolclay.nl/

Acknowledgments

    Scholarship
  • Van Achterbergh-Domhof

  • 2023