Keith McCarter is a Scottish sculptor, with several works on public display.

Career

McCarter was born in Edinburgh in 1936 and studied at

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. He received an Andrew Grant Scholarship which allowed him to travel through Europe including Scandinavia, in 1960 and 1961. He then lived in America until 1963, working for Steuben Glass as a designer. Returning to the UK, he was from 1964 to 1968 a visiting lecturer at

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. He is known for his abstract sculptural relief in concrete, ''Celestial'', which was commissioned by, and from 1969 to 2011 adorned the

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headquarters of,

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. As of December 2022, it was stored in a field in Milton Keynes, while a new home for it was sought. As his career progressed, he switched from working in concrete to metal. Several of his works of

public art Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...

are on display.

Personal life

McCarter's brother Graham also studied art, at Guildford Art College. In later like, McCarter became a full-time carer for his wife, Brenda. She died in 2022.

Works

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarter, Keith Living people 1936 births Scottish sculptors People from Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art Abstract sculptors