Cherina was born in
Osijek, Croatia. He moved to England, where he worked as an assistant to
Henry Moore. 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. He currently lives in Taiwan. and a bust of
Alexander Solzhenitsyn that is held at the
National Library of Australia. 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 six metre high, six tonne abstract artwork depicting prolific sculptor
Henry Moore located in Banjo Paterson Bush Park in
Yeoval, New South Wales, Australia. ==References==