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Drobot Maria
“The painting is part of a large series about space. Space for me is a space of emptiness and silence. It doesn’t belong to any one person or culture, and since the galaxy is huge and largely unexplored, it feels like a place where everything is equally foreign and possible. The dark side of the moon is not visible to us, so it’s a playground for imagination and fantasy, and I like to think of scenarios that could happen there.”
Maria Drobot was born in 1996 in Kyiv.
She is a multidisciplinary figurative artist. The main theme of her practice is the study of the function of everyday religious art and the desire to build a personal iconography.
Education
2015-2019 – BA Painting, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Teachers – Moyna Flanigan, Graeme Todd.
2002-2013 – Kyiv Children’s Academy of Arts, Kyiv. Art workshop of Vira Krutilina.
Personal exhibitions
“Bathing in the Sea of Noon”, Kyiv, 2023.
Personal exhibition/theatre performance “Figures on the Floor”, Kyiv, 2019.
Group exhibitions
“FBA Futures 2020, London, 2020.
ECA Degree Show, Edinburgh, 2019.
“Standard Format: Exhibition”, Edinburgh, 2018
“Third Year Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2018
Exhibition-performance “How a modern workshop works”, Kyiv, 2017
Awards
Catriona White Prize for painting, 2019
Shortlisted for the John Byrne Prize, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2017.
