Exhibition Opening, June 23 2009

June 2009 Exhibition Opening Montevideo

 At the highly successful opening of my exhibtion at the Centro Balear in Montevideo on June 23rd, are pictured, standing in front of ” Bushfine 4″ , l-r, Virginia, my generous friend and organiser, Alicia (Centro Balear) friend Mindy and Maria (Centro Balear)

Despite the frigid weather, around 130 people turned out to see this showing, and many lingered for some time,  talking to me and each other about this art form which is little known in Uruguay.  Several of my Uruguayan quilter friends came on the evening, and during the 4 days it was open several more called in to see it, including one from Rivera – a good 5 hours’ away by road.  One friend indicated she would like to buy one of the works  – and a couple of days came back to do just that.  Interestingly, it  will travel to a family member in Australia shortly .  I’m pretty sure this is to be a surprise gift -and so I won’t mention the work or the name of my new collector, just in case this blog post lets the cat out of the bag.   But it is one of the several burnt ,or as my son calls them, “post apocalyptic lace” works… the recent Timetracks series, of which another example is the one in Quilt National just now.  Another small piece  I blogged recently and it will be in the SAQA online 12″ Squares Auction, commencing September 11 at 2pm Eastern  (USA) time.  For further information go to www.saqa.com

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