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 2021
Very many congratulations are due to Professor Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde) on her Suffrage Science Award! She is also a recipient of a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant. Professor Majumdar specialises in the mathematics and modelling of nematic liquid crystals and partially ordered materials, including their applications in industry.
Read on10 March 2021
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta have made a video showing how individual members and the whole community have benefitted from coming together and making music in the wake of the tsunami.
Read on9 March 2021
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently interviewed, speaking with Carla Tofano for Metralla Rosa (a channle dedicated to in-depth conversations with prominent personalities in the creative world) about his Japan and London paintings, and his development/career in general. This link takes you to an accompanying page to the interview, with introductory text
Read on1 March 2021
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, WOW Women’s Film Club invited Eiko Meredith, the director of Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, to hand-pick a selection of animated shorts crafted by up-and-coming female animators working in Japan, and to organise an online Creative Workshop by Japanese animator and illustrator Chie Arai. The Japanese shorts can be watched live via the Eventive website on 13 March, and will remain available for a week.
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