Biography
Keith Grant (b. Liverpool, UK 1930) attended Willesden School of Art (1952-55) and the Royal College of Art (1955-58), where he gained a silver medal for mural painting. In 1958 he won a travelling scholarship to France; in 1960 a Norwegian Government Scholarship; in 1962 and Icelandic Government Scholarship; in 1973 a Gulbenkian Award and in 1976 a grant from the Norwegian government to visit Norway.
Grant was head of painting at Maidstone College of Art (1969-71) and head of the department of art at Roehampton Institute of Higher Education. He showed at Roland, Browse & Delbanco; Crane Kalman Gallery; Gillian Jason Gallery amongst others and was a member of the Society of Landscape Painters. He was the subject of a Look, Stranger programme for BBC Television, which featured his 1971 open-air sculpture at Shaw Theatre based on Joan of Arc.
He also completed murals for Rhodesia House in 1959, Middlesex Hospital in 1972 and Gateshead Metro Station, 1981–3. In 1999-2000 he was commissioned by Charing Cross Hospital to complete a large stained glass window, Millennium New Worlds. Retrospective exhibitions have included Ice and Fire, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1994). He has more recently had solo shows at Cadogan Contemporary (2000 & 2003).
