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Biography
Frédérique Domergue (1963) is into metal. She investigates all this material’s diversity to create a wide range of colours and textures. Her challenge is to alter its state: releasing the metal from the coldness and the brutality usually associated with it. Through polishing and oxidation, she gives it a warmth, softness and sensuality that makes you want to caress the radiant and silky oxidised surfaces of her paintings.
As metallic sheen changes, her artworks are often continuously evolving, witness to time passing. In the manner, the artwork’s oxidation transforms it bit by bit, as if alive. Frédérique Domergue gets her inspiration from nature and the seaside. Her paintings evoke landscapes, skies and seas that are sometimes calm and tranquil other times stormy, dark and ablaze. The horizontal line in many of her compositions is where land, sea and sky mix and mingle, the very place where the elements fuse.
Growing up with her grandparents, a painter and a dressmaker, Frédérique Domergue developed a taste early on for working with materials and their relation to experimental processes. This is what first led her to furniture design (wood and metal-framed). This mainly experimental practice allowed her to develop an intimate knowledge of a wide variety of metals: bronze, zinc, pewter, titanium, steel… Her passion and meticulousness of the finishing touches gradually drew her towards an essentially artistic approach. Freed from the practical aspect, Frédérique Domergue now creates paintings where her technical skills and artistic creativity are clearly expressed.
Frédérique Domergue exhibition at the Hôtel de Crillon (5 January to 15 February 2026)
Installation by Frédérique Domergue at Maison&Objet, Paris (France), 2019
View of Frédérique Domergue’s exhibition at Révélations 2025, Grand Palais, Paris, FR, 2025
CV
Education
- 2014 – Researches on new forms of application of the metal oxidization technique
- 2010 – Education at the carpentry workshop, study of wood veneer
- 2000 – Researches on the application of the metalic gainage technique
Exhibitions
- 2023 – “Revelations Salon“, Biennale Internationale des Métiers d’Art et de la Création, Art professions and Creation Salon, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
- 2022 – International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris (France)
- 2022 – Maison et Objet, Paris (France)
- 2021 – UniCréa, Genève PlainPalais (Switzerland)
- 2021 – Ob’Art Salon, Montpellier (France)
- 2021 – “Pièces Uniques“, Exhibition of creators and fine crafts, Rennes (France)
- 2021 – Atolls d’Airain, Megève (France)
- 2020 – Maison et Objet, Paris (France)
- 2019 – Ob’Art Salon, Montpellier (France)
- 2019 – Maison et Objet, Paris (France)
- 2017 – Atmosphérique, group show, Galerie Collection, Paris (France)
- 2017 – Salon Ob’art, Montpellier (France)
- 2017 – “Revelations Salon“, Salon des Métiers d’Art et de la Création, Art professions and Creation Salon, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
- 2015 – International Salon of Contemporary Art in Marseille, Marseille (France)
- 2015 – “Revelations Salon“, Salon des Métiers d’Art et de la Création, Art professions and Creation Salon, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
- 2015 – International Contemporary Art Salon ART3F Nantes, Nantes (France)
- 2015 – Salon Maison & Objet, Home and Object Salon, Paris (France)
- 2014 – Authentic Art design, Dubai (UAE)
- 2014 – Maison et Objet, Home and Object, Paris (France)
- 2014 – Resonances, Strasbourg (France)
- 2014 – Ob’Art, Montpellier (France)
- 2013 – Galerie Authentic Art Design, Dubai (UAE)
- 2012 – Galerie Derrière la dune, Touquet Plage, Le Touquet (France)
- 2011 – Home and Object Salon, Paris (France)
- 2011 – Galerie Derrière la dune, Touquet Plage, Le Touquet (France)
- 2010 – Home and Object Salon, Paris (France)
- 2010 – Carousel of the art professions, Paris (France)
Awards & Residencies
- Winner of the Artinovart’s 2024 prize in the Métiers d’Art category, 14th edition of Artinovart’s, La Chambre des Métiers et de l’Artisanat de l’Hérault, Montpellier, France
- Documentary in the “Reg’Art de Femmes” (Reg’Art of women) collection broadcasted on the cultural channel ARTE
Articles
Introducing Frédérique Domergue
Artist Frédérique Domergue creates unusual work, in 2 dimensions, which lends both from sculpture by the contours, and from painting by the quest...
