• CV Michael Chaikin
  Born 1957 Kingston - on - Thames
  1976 - 1981 MBBS Medical Degree, Royal Free Hospital
  1986-87 Foundation Studies Eastbourne Art College
  1987 - 90 BA Fine Art , Falmouth Art College
  1991 - 95 Red herring Studios, Brighton
  1995-96 Tutor, Fine Art at Hawkesbay University, New Zealand
  1996 - 1999 Red herring Studios, Brighton
  1999-2006 Old Grist Mill Studio, Penryn, Cornwall
  2005-2006 MA , Falmouth Art College
  2006-present day White Caunce Farm Studios, Penzance.
  Exhibitions (a selection)
  Newlyn Orion Gallery graduate show 1991
  Brighton Open Exhibition (winner)1992
  Rye Art Gallery 1993 (one person show)
  Brighton, Gardner centre 1995 and 1996 (one person show)
  Brighton Corn Exchange 1997
  London Contemporary Art Gallery, Chelsea. 1997 (one person show)
  Peters Barn Gallery, Midhurst Surrey 1998 (one person show)
  King St Gallery, Mayfair, London 1998
  Hannah Peschar Outdoor Gallery1998
  Hamburg 2002
  Lemon Street Gallery 2003 and 2009
  Paris, Place de la Bastille 2003
  Campden Art Gallery 2006 , 2008 (one person show)
  London - chelsea town hall 2009
  Affordable art fair 2009
  Kestle Barton Arts, The Lizard, Cornwall 2010 (one person show)
  Majlis Gallery, Dubai, UAE. Feb 2011(one person show)
  Hogarth, 164 Shaftsbury Avenue, London July 2011 - present day
  "Fish Tank" - a 50ft street level window exhibition (one man show)

• Commissions and other work
  Brighton Marina Large Mobile in Town square 1996
  Hampton Court Flower Show - sculpture1997 (winner of silver medal)
  Winner of competition to design clock for Farnham Town Centre, Surrey. 1998
  Eden Project, Cornwall- Five sculptures commissioned for opening in 2001
  Artist in residence - Torquay 2002
  Kneehigh Theatre set designer and fabricator 2003
  Falmouth Town Centre 3 pieces commissioned 2002 - 2004
  Forkbeard Fantasy: mechanical sculptures for “Frankenstein” 2004
  Massive Renovation project, Old Grist Mill, Penryn 2002 - 2007

• TV
  Gardening programs - outdoor sculptures and fountains
  Blue Peter- sunflower sculpture
  Discovery Channel - Heron’s steam the first ever steam engine
  BBC Two (“Downshifters”)1996

• Private collections including Ellen Macarthur - the round the world
  yachts woman
  

Michael Chaikin –Short Biography

Michael Chaikin was born in 1957 studied Medicine and was a hospital doctor for a while before starting his real career as a sculptor. He first studied at Eastbourne Art College, East Sussex, UK in 1986 then Falmouth Art College, Cornwall, UK (1987 - 1990) where he obtained a degree in Fine Art.
He taught sculpture at Hawkesbay University, New Zealand and the Joined Red Herring Studios in Brighton as a working sculptor. Exhibited in London, Brighton, Hamburg, Paris with numerous one man shows the last one in Feb 2011 in Dubai, UAE.
Currently he has a 50 ft window display in Covent Garden, London.
He lived and worked in Brighton until 1999 then moved to Falmouth, Cornwall, UK to start his own studio complex in a derelict water mill which he renovated and turned into eight studios keeping the largest for himself.
Michael then went on to work with The Eden Project and a number of Theatre Companies making moving sculptures.
Movement is his one true love . Most of the things he makes move in some way and it is his life’s work to strive to make sculptures that look beautiful when they are still and spectacular when they move.

Michael lives and works in Penzance, Cornwall, UK with his wife and two daughters.

MC 2011