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Drago Marin Cherina (born 1949) is a Croatian sculpting artist, who was naturalized Australian in the years 1970.
Cherina was born in Korčula, Croatia.[1] He moved to England, where he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore.[2] He came to Australia in 1975 to do a bust of Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and liked the place so much he arranged to be naturalized in Gough's office.[3] He currently lives in Taiwan.[2]
Works
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Notable works include The Mathy a bronze statuette awarded to the annual winner of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition[4] and a bust of Alexander Solzhenitsyn that is held at the National Library of Australia.[5]
A bronze sculpture of cellist Jacqueline du Pré, by Cherina, was installed at the Kensington Park Community Centre in Kensington, Sydney, in 2018.
A bust of Mahatma Gandhi is installed in Shanghai's New Town Central Park.
A 6 metre high, six tonne abstract artwork depicting prolific sculptor Henry Moore located in Banjo Paterson Bush Park in Yeoval, New South Wales, Australia.[6][7]
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