Hironori Katagiri (1958 – )

Biography: Hironori Katagiri was born in Kesennuma, Japan and studied art at Miyagi University of Education. He has exhibited internationally and creates many of his works for public commissions. He came to Scotland in the mid-1980s, to work at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire (where this work was created). There he met, and later married, Edinburgh artist Kate Thomson. The couple actively promote sculpture in Scotland and Japan and have a workshop in Edinburgh.