Biography
Maria Chevska (b. London, UK 1948) attended Byam Shaw School of Art (1970–4). She became head of painting at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She exhibited widely ando was included in Sister Wendy Beckett’s 1988 survey Contemporary women artists. Group shows have included Art and Sea, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and ICA (both 1981); the Whitechapel Open, from 1983; Crossover, Anderson O’Day Gallery (1991); and White Out, Curwen Gallery (1995). She solo shows at Air Gallery (1982); Andrew Mummery (1996 and 2001); and Spoken Image, Kunstmuseum Heldenheim and Museum Goch, Germany, and BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland (all 1997); with a tour, Vera’s Room, of paintings and a new installation of objects at the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, France (2002). Awards have included Arts Council (1977); Greater London Arts Association (1979–84); Gulbenkian Foundation Printmakers Award (1982); and Austin Abbey Award, British School at Rome (1994).
