7 July 2026
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall has a new Japan-themed painting on show at the Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition until 11 July at Gallery 8 in Mayfair, central London. His oil painting The Kokeshi Maker is one of 90 artworks chosen from 3,252 worldwide submissions. The show also includes paintings by Winifred Nicholson
Read on26 June 2026
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 31 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2026. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support the travel of 11 explorer scouts and 2 leaders from the 83rd Fife Scout Group to attend the
Read on28 April 2026
A new Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been selected for this year’s Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, 7 to 19 May. ‘Graveyard Getsuho’ will be included in the show at the Mall Galleries in central London. The painting will then also be shown at The Contemporary British Portrait
Read on27 March 2026
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was commissioned by The Creative Restaurant Group to make a series of paintings for Kioku by Endo – a high-end Japanese restaurant in Whitehall London, located on the top floor of the luxury hotel Raffles at The OWO (in between Downing Street and Trafalgar Square). “Michelin-starred chef Endo
Read on19 March 2026
We are delighted to be supporting aspects ot the lecture series connected to “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige” showing at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester until 15 November 2026. You can find a list of the talks here: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/events-programme/ Exhibition details can be found via this link: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/
Read on26 February 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).
Read on22 February 2019
It has been 8 years since the triple disaster hit Japan, on 11th March 2011. Reflecting on the global impact of this disaster, Art Action UK (AAUK) is holding a discussion event on 11 March from 6pm to 8pm at Deptford X Project Space. AAUK has invited a panel of speakers including Yoi Kawakubo, Gabriella
Read on21 February 2019
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to be hosting a calligraphy course at its premises from Thursday, 7 March until 20 June 2019.
Read on19 February 2019
A renowned koto performer is visiting London as a Cultural Envoy from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs and will be holding a concert and giving a talk in March. Toshiko YONEKAWA (koto 13-string zither) is from a family lineage of koto masters, she has performed in over 15 countries as a Japan Cultural Envoy 1) concert: Monday
Read on12 February 2019
An intimate portrait of the loving relationship between lawyers Kazu and Fumi follows their journey fighting for the rights of the marginalised and the risk-takers in ultra-homogenous Japan, while also building a family of their own. DocHouse previews ‘Of Love and Law’ alongside a director Q&A on Sunday 24 February: http://bit.ly/OfLoveLawQA Screenings: Curzon Soho (London):
Read on8 February 2019
Japan Now is the chance to explore contemporary writing and culture from Japan. With a new wave of Japanese fiction hitting UK bookshelves, meet the writers alongside translators and contemporary artists at this annual event, exploring gender, history, society and everything in between. It will be held from 18th-25th February.
Read on4 February 2019
As a Daiwa Scholar, Ed Knight spent September 2008 oblivious to the unfolding global financial crisis. He was on his homestay living in the foothills of the Japanese Alps whilst working on a Japanese apple orchard in Nagano prefecture. He has continued to support UK-Japan apple links and recently hosted a group of apple growers from Nagano on a visit to the UK. To find out more, please read on.
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