BIO

Maria Andrievskaya (b.1993) is an artist living and working in London. Her work explores the stark parallels between the treatment of women and our collective exploitation of the land. Through figurative painting, hazy and timeless landscapes are populated with female characters that appear safe within their luminous sanctuary despite their perils. These figures, with their nuanced attitudes and symbolic baggage, navigate the landscapes with a fluidity that speaks to their inherent connection to nature. Ambiguous in scale and defiantly exposed, the women shift their perceived vulnerability into power and belonging. Within her work, the land serves as a sentient character in its own right, one that beckons us in and soothes all that exists within it. As part of her continuing material enquiry, she collect rocks and earth from her homeland of Cyprus to grind into handmade oil paint, as if to partly infuse the canvas with the environment she is recalling. Shifting between our collective familiarity of old master techniques with the childhood motifs that informed her own lifetime, she seeks to challenge the accessibility and hierarchy of visual language in art. Through painting, she is curious to find an alternative reality, in response to our failure to protect that which nurtures us.

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Education

2021-24 BA (Hons) Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

April - Apocalyptic Changes of State, BWG Gallery, London, UK
May - Arbeteta, The Roamer Project, Spain
May - 100 Years of Surrealism, CHP+Peggy Benefit Auction, London, UK
June - Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
July - Group Show, Soho Revue, London, UK

2023

  • Untitled Art Fair Miami, Room57 Gallery

  • Sadness is But a Wall Between Two Gardens, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK

  • Sweet Potion, Artistellar Gallery, London, UK

  • First Impression, Room57 Gallery, New York

  • The Flesh and the Answer, Art on a Postcard Auction, London, UK

  • CGLAS 1st & 2nd Year Interim Show, London, UK

  • Nature Holds a Mirror, Ambar Quijano

  • Art on a Postcard, International Women’s day Auction, London, UK

2022

  • Wilderness of Being, HdM Gallery, curated by Cassandra Bowes, London, UK

  • CGLAS 1st & 2nd Year Interim Show, Ugly Duck, London, UK

2020

  • Showhousejayjay, online, curated by Sasha Bogojev

Awards

2023 ACS x City & Guilds of London Art School Undergraduate Prize

2022 Shortlisted for The Painter-Stainers Prize