4 November 2021
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently commissioned by Bob Bob Ricard to create a series of four new portrait paintings of restaurateurs and people in the hospitality industry for their new £30 million restaurant in the Leadenhall building in the City of London. The portraits depict celebrated French chef and author
Read on6 July 2021
On Thursday 17th June 2021, the jury for the 9th iteration of the UK’s largest contemporary arts prize – Artes Mundi – voted unanimously to divide a £60,000 prize fund among all six shortlisted candidates. On this landmark award, stated by Art Asia Pacific to be ‘the highest-valued contemporary art award in the United Kingdom’,
Read on2 July 2021
世界で活躍する写真家であり映画監督の蜷川実花氏が、桜や金魚の象徴的な写真から、最近の「写ルンです」シリーズやパラリンピック選手のポートレート等、自身のアート作品について語ります。また、パンデミックの中で写真家としての活動をどのように調整してきたか、社会的距離感についての考え方や世界観についても探ります。司会は、アシュモレアン美術館キュレーター、フリッチュ・レーナ博士が担当。
蜷川実花氏の作品は、2021年7月29日から、アシュモレアン美術館「TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY」展にて展示予定。同氏によるパラリンピック選手のポートレイトは、現在Daiwa Japan House Galleryにて展示中。
28 June 2021
In 2019, supported with a Daiwa Foundation Award, ten primary school children from five Coventry primary schools travelled to Japan. The pupils collaborated with five schools in Japan on Olympic-based projects. Outcomes of the project have been far-reaching, including a Japan Arts Festival in Coventry, an Olympic Torch relay between 60 Coventry schools, a Japanese Peace Garden and further Japan-related education.
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We offer our congratulations to the artist and author Edmund de Waal on having been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 12 June 2021. Edmund was one of the first recipients of a Daiwa Scholarship, following the establishment of the programme by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 1991. De Waal is renowned
Read on15 December 2020
For the last three years, artist Stefan Jennings and photographer Jane Kelly have been researching and working on FOUND KOBE JAPAN. This project centres on an anonymous photographic album that was found dumped in a skip and which depicts a life lived in Japan in the 1920s, focusing on the international community living in Japan
Read on3 December 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited to exhibit two artworks in this year’s Small is Beautiful exhibition at Flowers Gallery, until 10 January 2021. Flowers is one of the UK’s leading commercial galleries, with galleries in New York, Hong Kong, East and Central London; representing prominent British figurative painters such as
Read on20 November 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been selected for this year’s ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, with a new painting ‘On the Horizon (After Lucas & Kuruganti)’. The event, sponsored by ING bank, is usually held at The Mall Galleries in London, but this year due to coronavirus is held exclusively online. The exhibition runs until 31 December 2020, and all works are for sale.
Read on15 October 2020
Artist and Daiwa Scholarship alumnus, Carl Randall’s new painting “Nihonbashi” will be exhibited in a group show in Tokyo from 17 to 31 October 2020. Other artists in the show include Yuta Nakazato, Ayako Kita, Ryota Nishioka, Kohei Yamada and Hoshiki Ara.
Read on15 September 2020
“A dozen artists from Europe and Asia inhabit ‘Super Flatland’ at White Conduit Projects. Some are there as an artistic strategy, either for aesthetic reasons or to generate confusion between what is 2D and what 3D. Others investigate the various ways in which reality might get ‘flattened’ – when it goes online, for example.”
-Paul Carey-Kent, 2020, Super Flatland
The exhibition includes work by Kate Groobey, winner of the 2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, and runs from Wednesday 16 September to Sunday 18 October 2020.
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