"Lyrical Abstraction"-Sculptures by Hironori Katagiri and Kate Thomson

Contemporary abstract stone sculpture by Japanese sculptor Hironori Katagiri and British sculptor Kate Thomson shown in the house and gardens of two fine examples of Scottish architecture: Mellerstain House, an exquisite Robert Adam stately home: and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic, Hill House.  

Both sculptors, who have been living and working in Japan for the last 20 years, explore sculpture as language and philosophy to create a tactile poetry of space, form and light.  Their work shows a unique cultural synergy, of complementary yet very individual approaches.   

During the exhibition there will be workshops, talks and tours on the theme of relationships between art & architecture, highlighting the cross fertilisation of ideas between different disciplines and cultures, including a “pecha kucha” 20 x 20 presentation by Hironori Katagiri, Kate Thomson and other artists, architects and landscape architects on the relationships between art and architecture, in Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Art Festival in August 2009.