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 on31 March 2015
Jason James, the Director of the Daiwa Foundation, gives us an account of his travels through Tohoku in March 2015. Weaving through the region in a worryingly small car, Jason finds locals determined to stay despite the slow progress of reconstruction. — The Shinkansen was packed when I got on at Ueno, but after Sendai –
Read on16 March 2015
As part of the Barbican’s major new exhibition on artists as collectors (Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector), former Daiwa Scholar, Edmund de Waal is showing the first collection he ever made as a child, containing shells, fossils and architectural fragments, alongside sixty-five Japanese netsuke from the collection given to him by his Uncle Iggie. To draw these historical collections together, Edmund is also exhibiting a work he made in 2011, from the collection of a private man, a biographical work of fifty-seven porcelain vessels held within a vitrine. All three collections will be on public view for the first time. The show is on until 25 May 2015.
Read on13 March 2015
This exhibition at Covent Garden’s Poetry Society Café, from 2 March to 25 April, is a collaborative show of drawings and poems by Isao Miura & Chris Beckett, exploring the legacy of Matsuo Basho’s masterpiece Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), its enduring power as a model of travel-writing, and the influence of haibun and haiku in British poetry today.
Read on2 March 2015
The dynamic Yamato Drummers of Japan will return to the UK this Spring with their brand new show BAKUON, embarking on a 20-date UK tour opening at Bristol Hippodrome on Monday 20 Apri 2015, with a press night on Tuesday 21 April at Woking New Victoria Theatre.
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