Illustrator, painter and printmaker, born and lived in London, daughter of artists Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson. She attended Cambridge School of Art, 1970–3, Royal College of Art, 1973–6, winning a drawing prize in 1972, then worked in Paris in 1974. Began drawing for Sunday Times Colour Magazine and also worked for The Observer. Her prints were sold through Curwen Gallery and Christie’s Contemporary Art. Cheese’s first solo exhibition was at Curwen Gallery in 1979, others taking place at Thumb Gallery; in Japan, with which she had a strong working connection; and at Curwen put on a retrospective to 1973 in 1996. In 1985 a British Council touring exhibition was entitled British Illustration from Caxton to Chloë, acknowledging her contribution.