Esmé Matthews is 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 rusted steel, found objects, and other industrial materials, she investigates 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 her creative process, she questions capitalist notions of value, permanence, and utility, highlighting transformation as a form of both resistance and renewal. Ultimately, her work is rooted in a rejection of industrialization and modernization contrasted with a desire to return to the natural world.