Keith Rand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKeith Rand
British artist
Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1956
Place of Birth: Rinteln, Lower Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 01-Apr-2013
Profession: sculptor
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Keith Rand
- Keith Rand RSA (25 October 1956 – 17 March 2013) was an 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, Southampton, before enrolling in 1979 at the Winchester School of Art and graduating in 1982 with first class honours.
- Around this time his first solo show, Sculpture In The Woods, was held at the Crabwood Nature Reserve, Winchester. After leaving Winchester, Rand 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 near Salisbury.
- In 1999 one of his largest public works, standing more than four metres high, was bought for Canary Wharf.
- He went on to create a series of tensile carvings that were exhibited in his first solo exhibition in London, with the Stephen Lacey Gallery.
- It was at this time that he was invited to develop a concept carving Ridgeline for Sculpture at Goodwood, which was exhibited at the Guggenheim in Venice in 2002. In 2005 he was made a Royal Scottish academician, and moved to Cranbourne Chase in Dorset.
- His later sculpture commissions included: By The Downs for ArtCare, Salisbury District Hospital; In The Balance for the Brecklands in Norfolk; Heartwood for Bournemouth University[1]; and The Grain for Sainsbury's in Edinburgh[2].
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