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Keith Rand

Keith Rand was born in Rintien, Germany, in 1956 and studied at Winchester College of Art. After many years of working in Scotland he was elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1996. He established a studio at Clarendon, Salisbury, England in 1999 and one on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, in 2001.

Rand's has had many solo shows in Scotland and England, and has featured in group shows in Britain, Europe and Japan. His sculpture is in public and private collections in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, the USA and Japan.

Wood is Keith Rand's preferred material for sculpture and he also practices as a land artist. 'What interests me,' he says, 'is the movement of a line, an edge, the shift of surface planes that I observe in plants, open landscapes and the human figure. The transformation of my ideas into sculptures or land-works evolves through a combination of carving timber into tensile elements and exploring the harmony of assemblage.'