Anna Cheyne

Anna Cheyne HRUA (9 April 1926 – 10 September 2002) was a British artist and sculptor working with diverse media including batik, ceramics, papier mâché, stone, fibreglass and bronze.

[4] Cheyne founded and ran a company that supplied pottery materials to artists until 1982, when she sold the business to concentrate fully on her art.

[4] Subsequently she worked in a wide range of mediums that included pottery and painting but it is as a sculptor that she was best known having received a number of public commissions.

Other notable public commissions include a 1994 bronze plaque for the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin;[6] a coat of arms for the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Fire Authority at Lisburn in 1991; Regeneration for Blackstaff Square, Belfast, in 1993; and My Lady of Chimney Corner for Antrim Borough Council in 1998.

The group were actively promoting peace throughout Northern Ireland by supporting working class women who were facing financial hardship and sectarian strife.