Background
Chinneck was educated at Bedford Modern School, where his father taught PE.
Chinneck was educated at Bedford Modern School, where his father taught PE.
He studied painting at Chelsea College of Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, and became a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
He had ambitions to become a cricketer, having captained his school team at county level, before his interest in art at the age of 16. Shortly after college, Chinneck collaborated with Conrad Shawcross on his work. After initially focusing on small sculptures, influenced by House designed by Rachel Whiteread and the work of Richard Wilson, Chinneck started working on large scale designs.
Most of Chinneck"s installations feature across Greater London.
His early works include, where the artist used 1,248 pieces of glass to create 312 identically smashed windows across the derelict facade of a factory in Hackney, in Margate where Chinneck created the illusion that the entire facade of house had slid into the garden, and, a commercial property situated on Blackfriars Road created to look as if it had become completely inverted. Foreign his work in Hackney, local residents have described Chinneck as the "Banksy of Glass".
His more recent works include, a building located in Covent Garden designed to appear as if it floated in the air, and, a house on Southwark Street made from 7,500 paraffin wax bricks which slowly melted. The installation, saw a Vauxhall Corsa suspended upside down in Southbank Centre car park.
The Guardian called Chinneck a "master of architectural illusion".
Royal British Society of Sculptors.