News category: Art & Exhibitions

3 December 2021

Artist & Daiwa Scholarship alumnus Carl Randall exhibiting a new Japan-themed painting at 'Small is Beautiful 'at Flowers Gallery, Mayfair London, until 8 January 2022

Artist and Daiwa scholarship alumnus Carl Randall has been invited for a fifth consecutive year to take part in Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St., Mayfair London.   The exhibition features small scale works by internationally recognised artists, and is running until 8 January 2022.   Carl lived in Tokyo for 10 years,

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4 November 2021

Carl Randall

Carl Randall commissioned to create portrait paintings celebrating restaurateurs and the hospitality industry

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

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6 July 2021

Artes Mundi/Meiro Koizumi’s Angels of Testimony

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’,

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2 July 2021

蜷川実花氏によるアーティスト・トークのご案内

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。

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28 June 2021

Coventry Young Ambassadors’ 2019 Japan Visit & Subsequent Activities

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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15 December 2020

The Octopus & FOUND KOBE JAPAN

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

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3 December 2020

Carl Randall exhibiting at Flowers Gallery 'Small is Beautiful' exhibition - until 10 January 2021

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

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20 November 2020

Carl Randall exhibiting new painting at ING Discerning Eye Exhibition: on until 31 Dec 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.

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