FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN HONG KONG by Artist Curator Educator

Practising Artist – Independent Curator – Qualified Teacher – Founder of 3RD WAVE

Lives and works in Hong Kong since 2012

Working with Decombe was a fantastic experience. She has a creative drive and used it to conceptualise and create this project in order to explore the themes of permanence/ impermanence, creation /destruction, the visual /written. She both understood what she wanted from the project and was open to suggestions, which made the experience structured yet collaborative.

HEATH PENNINGTON 2016.

Frederique Decombe has developed her art practice and curatorial projects in France, the UK and in Hong Kong. Her artworks have been showcased in galleries, museums and other public places in personal and collective exhibitions. She has received the support of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2018), the Arts Council England and The Lottery, as well as the Individual Support for Creation from the D.R.A.C. Ile de France. Her work has been acknowledged and discussed in various catalogues, talks, on radio and TV, as well as in the general press.

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My performance and exhibition at your gallery (2014) has been thrilling; discovering with you the culture of Hong Kong, and your welcoming and openness towards my show where everything was possible.

OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN 2019

Since 2013 a number of projects, inviting local and international artists, have been curated and organised in Hong Kong by Culture Industries Association and La Commission: exhibition, live performance, seminar, film screening, publication and box set. Recent projects have been supported by the Xevarion Institute. Press coverage includes written press (SCMP, Time Out, Milk, Apple daily, East Touch, Hong Kong Magazine, The Wire), TV (RTHK), and RTHK Radio 3.

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You played a huge role (in 2010) in shaping me into the fine creative that I am now.

FEMI AROGUNDADE 2019

Frederique Decombe has a wide range of experiences with international students working in educational and cultural institutions, such as Chelsea College of Arts, Sheffield University, Chelsea Independent College, City of Westminster College, Serpentine gallery, Victoria & Albert museum -UK; and School of Creative Media at City University, Colour My World -HK.

She employs a wide range of conceptual and practical skills spanning across different creative fields and disciplines: fine arts, architecture and fashion/textile –to cite a few.

Frederique’s students successfully progressed onto higher education joining institutions such as University of Leeds, University of Bath, University of Brighton, University of Portsmouth, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Westminster, Central Saint Martins, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Bournemouth University, London Film Academy (UK) ; Trinity College Dublin (IRL) ; Pratt Institute, Parsons, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University (USA) ; Hongik University Seoul (KR) and University of Hong Kong (HK).

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