Edition of 26. Hideo Furuta was an artist and teacher born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1949. From 1969–71, Furuta attended Tokyo Visual Art College, for foundation and sculpture before coming to the UK in 1985. Before relocating to the UK, Hideo Furuta worked as a stonemason. When he settled in Creetown, Galloway, the plethora of white granite in the quarries he lived beside gave him raw materials to create his huge but whisperingly delicate works.
While in Edinburgh, Furuta studied contemporary music. This is where he began to explore the relationships between music, science, and visual art, and recorded of his own compositions of "sculptures to be listened to".