Hilde de Decker

Bio

Hilde de Decker, born in 1965, studied interior design and then jewellery. She works and lives in Belgium and has been the Head of the Jewellery Department at Sint Lucas in Antwerp since 2008.

Among other distinctions, she was awarded the City Goldsmith's Price in Hanau in 2008, and her work is featured in private and public collections, most notably the Stedelijk Museum (NL), the CODA Museum (NL), the Design Museum (BE), and the FNAC (FR). 

Statement

I don’t aim to please or to shock people. I am only exploring the limits of traditional jewellery, escaping involuntary conventions and conformities. Interacting with other disciplines in the arts, transposing techniques, desecrating materials, Copying abandoned or ordinary objects... it all happens purely intuitively. My jewellery refers rather to human nature, to the fragility of life and all the deficiencies and imbecilities we encounter. The banality of every day life and all the small but amazing miracles that show up in the middle of this banality, strikes me. 

Because of this reference to every day life, my work doesn’t need extravagance or exuberance in its form of expression. My only aim is to make the imperfection of our lives as perfect as possible. 

I like to invite people to present their thoughts and works in the context of daily life, to open up a new perspective on their creative process.

/ Hilde de Decker