14 September 2026
Onsen, an oil painting by Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall, has been used on the cover of the book Skinship published by Salt Publishing. Skinship is a collection of poems by author Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, who like Carl, spent 10 years living in Japan. The title Skinship comes from a Japanese loan word fusing
Read on28 August 2026
Daiwa Scholarships 2027: Language Study, Homestay & Work Placement in Japan – apply by 3 December 2026 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity supporting UK-Japan links through awarding Daiwa Scholarships and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies; offering grants to support UK-Japan collaboration and organising events including seminars, and exhibitions at its London headquarters.
Read on12 August 2026
Nonomiya/Song of Rona Island – taking place at Edinburgh International Book Festival this August! Monday 24 August 2026 | 19:00 – 21:00 at Greyfriars Kirk and repeated on Tuesday 25 Aug at 19:00 Noh Reimagined theatre company will introduce Noh Theatre in Part One with Nonomiya – a piece based on the oldest novel of
Read on7 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 on25 September 2020
On October 24th and 25th, viewers will be able to participate in the full line-up of screenings and events, all of which will be free to access via YouTube and various Zoom sessions. In total, 37 films, including 28 works from students studying at 5 different Japanese universities will be screened, and 9 works from 5 award-winning animators, including Oscar nominated Koji Yamamura and Shin Hosokawa. These works will be introduced by the creators themselves as the festival aims to continue in its mission to connect animators with audiences.
Read on17 September 2020
Maddie Baker, History and Japanese student at the University of Exeter has written about this year’s inaugural London Mural Festival. The Festival featured more than one hundred and fifty artists from around the world. The Japanese artists that the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has supported at the event this year are: Fate, Imaone, and Suiko.
Read on15 September 2020
“A dozen artists from Europe and Asia inhabit ‘Super Flatland’ at White Conduit Projects. Some are there as an artistic strategy, either for aesthetic reasons or to generate confusion between what is 2D and what 3D. Others investigate the various ways in which reality might get ‘flattened’ – when it goes online, for example.”
-Paul Carey-Kent, 2020, Super Flatland
The exhibition includes work by Kate Groobey, winner of the 2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, and runs from Wednesday 16 September to Sunday 18 October 2020.
Read on9 September 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting a privately commissioned portrait painting as part of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, the Mall Galleries London, 16 to 26 September 2020. And, mounted high-quality giclée prints of some of Carl’s Japan paintings will be on sale at the National Portrait Gallery London, for a very limited time only.
Read on9 September 2020
Art Action UK is hosting an interactive online panel discussion on Saturday, 12 September (13:00 to 14:00 British Summertime). The discussion will focus on artists’ experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic – as lived in Japan, the UK, France and Germany – with time for the audience to ask questions and share their experiences. Through this event, Art Action UK will seek to discover how countries can demonstrate the value arts and culture by actively supporting those who contribute to their economy and wellbeing.
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