News category: Art & Exhibitions

1 May 2019

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Manga マンガ at British Museum, 23 May to 26 August 2019

Divided into six different ‘zones’ the exhibition promises to be a playful and immersive showcase of original Japanese manga, its relevance and importance to Japanese culture and history and Manga’s influence across the globe. Some highlights of the exhibition include the 17m long Shintomiza Kabuki Theatre Curtain (featuring painted demons and ghosts), high profile loans from famous Japanese artists (including Hokusai and Kyosai) through

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16 April 2019

Gateways to Drawing

Carl Randall's 'Shibuya' used on cover of 'Gateways to Drawing'

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s Japan drawing ‘Shibuya’ has been used on the front cover of Gateways to Drawing, A Complete Guide, a book about drawing published by Thames & Hudson. Inside features drawings by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, van Gogh, Raphael, Durer, Ingres, Ando Hiroshige, Breughel, Daumier, Cezanne, Delacroix, William Blake, Alice

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26 February 2019

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Tokyo Street Scene by Carl Randall on display at Art Fair Tokyo 2019

A new, large Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is being exhibited at ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, March 7th – 10th, Tokyo Japan. It is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, exhibiting artists include Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leonard Fujita, Michael Craig-Martin, Taro Okamoto, Julian Opie; as well as a range of more traditional Japanese arts (ink and calligraphy paintings, nihonga, pottery, netsuke).

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5 December 2018

The "Yamatorige” Project: Returning a National Treasure to its Rightful Home

One of our 2017 Daiwa Scholars Tumi Markan is currently helping to run the international component of the campaign – to raise the capital needed to buy the famous “Yamatorige (山鳥毛)”, an art sword designated as a National Treasure of Japan, for the internationally-recognised Bizen Osafune Sword Museum – both creating and running the online crowdfunding page, as well as working with the museum’s master craftspeople to create promotional and informative content for the project.

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20 November 2018

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Alumnus Carl Randall in group exhibition at Flowers Gallery London, 29 November until 5 January 2019

Alumnus and artist Carl Randall is included in the group exhibition Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street,  London W1S 3LZ, 29th November 2018 until 5th January 2019. Flowers is one of the UK’s leading commercial galleries, with galleries in New York, Central London and East London, representing prominent British figurative painters such as

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10 July 2018

Exhibition : Ohgetsu Fujita presents… Emoji & Jazz on 27th, 28th & 29th July 2018

Up-and-coming Japanese artist Ohgetsu Fujita visits the UK especially to present her unique take on the art of calligraphy. The result is an evolution of tradition which focuses on spatial beauty. Hundred Years Gallery is proud to showcase her collection of Emoji-inspired artwork, fusing both traditional calligraphy (*1), Zenei-Shodou (*2) and her own creative techniques, which Fujita-san has mastered over the course of her career.

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28 June 2018

Carl Randall’s ‘Tokyo Portrait’ painting exhibiting at Fondation Carmignac Museum, France

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s large painting ‘Tokyo Portrait’ is part of the exhibition ‘Sea of Desire’ at Fondation Carmignac Museum, Porquerolles Island, South of France, June 2 – November 4, 2018: The painting was bought by Fondation Carmignac in 2014, joining works in their collection by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy

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15 June 2018

Kizuna: Japan | Wales | Design

Kizuna: Japan | Wales | Design is the latest exhibition to open at the National Museum Cardiff. The exhibition showcases Japanese design and culture and celebrates Wales’s role in the exchange of Japanese art and design.

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