Brian Rice was born in 1936 and studied at Yeovil School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. He has taught at numerous art colleges, including Hornsey College of Art, Croydon College of Art, Central School of Art, and, over a period of thirty years, at Brighton College of Art (now the University of Brighton). He began exhibiting in 1961, has had 35 solo exhibitions and around 200 group exhibitions. His work has been shown outside the UK in Italy, Japan, India, Norway, the former Yugoslavia, Canada and the USA. His work is held in over 60 public and corporate collections worldwide, including the Tate Gallery, V&A Museum, the Geffrye Museum, the Government Art Collection, the British Council, Plymouth City Art Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Exeter Museum, and in the USA at Oklahoma University Albright Collection, Boston University, Atlantic Richfield Co. New York, to name but a few.