Professor Keith Brown

Cyber environment. AR/VR Sculpture from the outside. 2019



2010 – 2019 Research Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University. Working almost totally in the cyber environment, 2D print, 3D print, VR, AR.


1990 – 2000 Principal, Manchester Metropolitan University. Working almost totally in the cyber environment, 2D print, 3D animation. First 3D print 1996. Cast many 3D prints into Bronze.


1980 – 1990 Senior Lecturer, Manchester Polytechnic. Work with trees moving towards Computer Aided Design as a sculpture design tool.

Guest Professor, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands,
Corridor piece. 1979.


1976 – 1977 Junior Fellow in Sculpture, Cardiff College of Art. Large scale installation; process, system, cause and effect.

1975 – 1976 Fellow in Sculpture, Cheltenham College of Art. Large scale sawdust installations, mixed media; process, system, cause and effect.

1972 – 1975 MA Royal College of Art School of Sculpture. Large scale installation, mixed media.

1968 – 1971 Diploma in Art & Design, Sunderland College of Art. Diploma in Art & Design Sunderland College of Art.

1968 – 1971 Diploma in Art & Design, Sunderland College of Art. Hard edged coloured minimalist work, using systems, repetitive processes, and modular units. Overseas study trip Michigan University NMC; travel to California, LA, San Francisco, influenced by West Coast Funk 1969.


1968 – 1971: 1st Year Diploma in Art & Design, Sunderland College of Art. Introduced to contemporary modernist movements, Pop Art, Op Art, minimalism.

1967 – 1968 Art Foundation Course, Sunderland College of Art. With Henry Moore acting as my referee, and without the usual entry qualifications, I applied for, and was offered a place, as an exceptionally talented applicant, to study fine art sculpture.

1962 – 1967 Pre Art School. Left secondary education at the age of 15. Began nonrepresentational direct carving in precast plaster blocks and wood. Heavily influenced by modern abstract sculpture, from Brancusi to Moore and Hepworth.