Andrew Kinghorn was born in Hong Kong in 1951, of Scottish ancestry.

His father was a colonial civil servant in Hong Kong, where his family have had strong ties since the 1860s. His forebears were traders in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

At the age of 11 he was sent “home" to school in Scotland.

He graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 1974 and moved to Australia to take up a teaching position at Deakin University in Melbourne/ Geelong. He spent the next 17 years in Australia, during which time he taught, designed books, furniture and innovative paint effects, and made and exhibited sculpture extensively. He also travelled widely throughout Australia and the region, visiting Papua New Guinea, Java, Sumatra, Suluesi and Kalimantan as well as Thailand, Burma, India and Nepal, all places and cultures which have informed his subsequent work.

In 1991 he returned to Scotland to design offices and restore listed Edinburgh buildings before returning to his primary interest, sculpture. He has been sculpting full time for 25 years. The sculpture is cast in bronze and also fabricated in stainless steel and aluminium. The subject matter varies from work that is primarily autobiographical to works that have political or religious themes.

He has a long association with the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.