Keith Rand

Who is Keith Rand?

Keith Rand RSA was a contemporary English wood sculptor and a Royal Scottish academician.

Born in Rinteln, West Germany the son of a lieutenant colonel of the British Army and the second of four children, Rand had a military childhood, before entering Woodroffe School as a boarder at the age of 13. On leaving he trained as a cartographic surveyor for the Ordnance Survey, Southhampton, before enrolling in 1979 at the Winchester School of Art and graduating in 1982 with first class honours. Around this time Sculpture In The Woods, Keith's first solo show was held at the Crabwood Nature Reserve, Winchester.

After leaving Winchester Keith worked as a part-time sculpture technician for the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden as well as teaching at the Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen from 1987 to 1991 His contribution to contemporary sculptural practice in Scotland and internationally was recognised through the many awards he received. In 1996 he was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.

From 1996 to 1998 he was artist in residence at Cannington Agricultural College in Somerset, creating a series of landscape structures for the River Parrett Trail. Following a visit to Japan in 1998, where he developed his original form motif, he established a studio at Clarendon Park in Salisbury.