Badkarsbråk
(Bathtub Fight)
photo: Galleri F15
2024
118 x 144 cm
(Bathtub Fight)
photo: Galleri F15
2024
118 x 144 cm
2023
180 x180 cm
Eat up
2022
48 x 40 cm
(longing/worry)
photo: David Eng
2022
143 x 143 cm
(to me)
2021
97 x 83 cm
Harness
2021
80 x 76 cm
2020
(goodbye)
Photo: Henrik Zeitler
2020
150 x 200 cm
(mastectomy)
2020
38 x 38 cm
2019
29 x 30 cm
(hands on sky)
2019
20 x 30 cm
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To get in touch, send me an email at esse.mcchesney@gmail.com
In cooperation with the lgbtqai+ organisation Status Queer there are three motives of Esse McChesney’s art, available as posters, on their website statusqueer.com/shop.
I samarbete med hbtqai+ organisationen Status Queer finns 3 av Esse Mchesneys verk som posters på deras hemsida statusqueer.com/shop.
Esse McChesney (they/them, b.1998 in Falun) is a queer textile artist based in Gothenburg. Their materials are mostly picture weaving, knitting and embroidery in different textile materials. In their work, they explore gender and sexuality in between the physical and digital, from the perspective of a queer non-binary trans person. They view their work as what they create is not unique because of their individuality, but is maybe more showing the time we are living in and an example of being. A footprint of queer love, fear and everyday life, self-love and self-acceptance. Queer experiences that can lay a piece of the puzzle that shows the experience of the human being.
Esse McChesney (den, f.1998 Falun) är en queer textilkonstnär baserad i Göteborg. Dens tekniker är framför allt bildväv, stickning och broderi i olika textila material. I dens arbete undersöker den kön och sexualitet melland et digtiala och det fysiska utifrån perspektivet av att vara en queer, ickebinär transperson. Den ser sitt arbete som att det den skapar blir ett avtryck inte unikt för den som person utan kanske mer visar tiden vi lever i, och ett exempel på att vara. Ett avtryck av queera känslor, liv, kärlek, rädsla, vardag, självkärlek och självacceptans. Queera upplevelser som kan lägga en bit av pusslet som visar erfarenheten av att vara människa.