Vicky Detry

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 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 my piece “Amadré” (free hand machine embr...

As a child I attended several art workshops.
In my twenties and thirtees I went to a bunch of workshops here in Buenos Aires with artist like Paca Robirosa and Cecilia Ibarguren. In 2013 I atended a workshop with the great embroidery artist called Mercedes Güiraldes.
In 2016 I attended the Textile seminar given by the international artists Chiachio & Giannone.
In 2016 I attended the Rebeca Mendoza artistic clases and I also attended her workshop.

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.
Rebeca Mendoza Art Show in 2016.