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Drobot Maria
“This work was created when I returned to Kyiv after the liberation of the region. For the first time since the beginning of the war, I had the opportunity to work. This work is called Tropaion – a Greek trophy, usually a statue erected by the victors at the site of a final or significant battle. The woman on the bas-relief holds a bouquet of two flowers, which in Ukrainian tradition symbolise mourning, but the sword complements the bouquet, making the number of flowers odd – traditional for celebration.”
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.
