Biography
My name is Vicky Detry. I’m a textil visual and embroidery artist living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I worked with different techniques: Wood and fabric painting, paper cut, bijouterie, embroidery. I grew up watching my mother and grandmother making marvellous things with their hands and learned to love artistic hand work. My mother left me the best legacy: the ability and pleasure to create with my hands.
In 2013 I atended a workshop with the great embroidery artist called Mercedes Güiraldes and I learned the technique of needlepainting and blew my head away. Since then my art work began to grow. I experimented with hand embroidery on fabric and on paper, free hand machine embroidery on paper and on fabric, paper cut, acrylic paint, watercolour, etc.
I participated in a few collective art shows like Puertas Abiertas 2013 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires. Galería Miranda Bosch 2014, Recoleta, Buenos Aires. BADA 2015 – Pilar, Buenos Aires.
I create pieces for sell, exhibition and comission.
I currently teach embroidery in Buenos Aires. And I gave embroidery workshops in Tres Arroyos (Argentina), Santa Fe (Argentina) and Punta del Este (Uruguay).
I also collaborated in two embroidery magazines: Bordados I, Bordados II and Bordados III will be out in october 2016. I also have a small embroidery business called “La Negra” where I sell sacred art and objects.
In 2016 I attended de Textile seminar given by the international artists Chiachio & Giannone. I’m currently attending to Rebeca Mendoza artistic workshop.
Recently my piece “Amadré” (free hand machine embroidery over paper) was selected for the “Salón Nacional de arte textil Fundación Romulo Raggio” that will take place from November 10th to November 30th 2016.
