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 on19 July 2024
This exhibition presents part of a research project still in progress by Dr Danilo Di Mascio, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, researcher and registered architect. The study was supported by a Daiwa Foundation grant to enable Danilo’s travel to Japan in order to meet academics in Tokyo and Osaka, and document the relationships between architecture, culture,
Read on16 July 2024
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting this year’s UCL-Japan Youth Challenge, a prestigious summer school programme for pre-university students from both the UK and Japan. Students will attend a series of university-style lectures on a wide range of subjects by academics from leading UK universities including UCL (University College London), and engage
Read on15 July 2024
Huge congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alum Gareth Mattey who has been awarded a theatre translator mentorship by Foreign Affairs. Gareth will be translating a Japanese play to be performed in London next year! Throughout the programme, Gareth and cohort will receive mentoring and take part in workshops to nurture their knowledge and skills for theatre
Read on11 July 2024
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s oil painting ‘Alain at Kew’ is now on display at the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. 50 paintings were chosen from 1,647 entries from 62 countries. The exhibition is free to visit and on until 27 October 2024, after which
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