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Trained at Winchester School of Art between 1979 and 1982 and had a studio in Winchester making furniture. He worked at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden as a sculpture technician in from 1984 and in 1987 became a part-time lecturer at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen until 1991. He was appointed to board of Directors of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in 1989. He was a Visiting Part-time Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen from 1990-94. He now lives in the south of England. He became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1996 and an Academician in 2005. Vide Obituary in catalogue of RSA Annual Exhibition 2014; "KEITH RAND RSA/ Keith Rand RSA (1956-2013) was born in Rinteln, Germany and entered Woodroffe School in Dorset, as a boarder at the age of 13. On leaving he trained as a cartographic surveyor for Ordnance Survey in Southampton before enrolling at the Winchester School of Art, graduating in 1982 with first class honours.# Following his period at Winchester, Keith joined the team at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, working as a part-time technician. During this period he taught in the sculpture department at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and was visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art in Aberdeen and wa svisiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone Colleg eof Art, Dundee.# Working mainly in wood, Keith used native timbers which reflected his interest in environmental matters. Many of his works are sited rurally across the UK, including the work Segmented Sitka in the forest at Tyrebagger in Aberdeenshire.#In 1996 he became sculptor in residence to Cannington Agricultural College in Somerset and created a series of landscape structures for the River Parrett Trail. During a visit to Japan in 1998, he developed his original form motif - a signatur eof his work to follow. Upon returning, he established a studio at Clarendon Park in Salisbury where, in 1999, his work featured in a major exhibition of British sculpture at Salisbury Cathedral.# The original form motif was prominent in his later works and included one sculpture at over four meters high which was subsequently acquired for canary Wharf [in London]. This period led to a relationship with the Stephen Lacey Gallery who represented him with his first solo exhibition in London. He wa slate rrepresented by the John Martin Gallery.#In 2002, Keith was invited to develop a concept carving "Ridgeline" for Sculpture at Goodwood and his work was subsequently exhibited at the Guggenheim in Venice.#His work was acquired for major collections in the UK, Japan and Europe, and he was frequently awarded commissions for large site-specific works. Recent sculpture commissions included The Grain for Sainsbury's in Edinburgh and By the Downs for ArtCare at Salisbury District Hospital.#In recognition of his contribution to contemporary sculpture in Scotland, he wa smade an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1996 and became a Royal Scottish Academician in 2005. More recently, he was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors." vide also obituary in the Salisbury Journal, 2013-04-08; http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/10340055.Sculptor_dies_aged_56/; which gives his date of death. In 2015 the Royal Scottish Academy received the Keith Rand RSA Studio Gift comprising sculpture, maquettes, tools and materials, sketchbooks, drawings, photographs and associated archive