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 on27 July 2021
In this radio essay, former Daiwa Scholar Dr Chris Harding recalls the first time Tokyo was due to host the Olympic Games in 1940 and talks about Daimatsu ‘The Demon’ Hirobumi – the zealous coach who achieved a gold medal for Japan’s women’s volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics. It makes for a fabulous listen!
Read on6 July 2021
On Thursday 17th June 2021, the jury for the 9th iteration of the UK’s largest contemporary arts prize – Artes Mundi – voted unanimously to divide a £60,000 prize fund among all six shortlisted candidates. On this landmark award, stated by Art Asia Pacific to be ‘the highest-valued contemporary art award in the United Kingdom’,
Read on2 July 2021
世界で活躍する写真家であり映画監督の蜷川実花氏が、桜や金魚の象徴的な写真から、最近の「写ルンです」シリーズやパラリンピック選手のポートレート等、自身のアート作品について語ります。また、パンデミックの中で写真家としての活動をどのように調整してきたか、社会的距離感についての考え方や世界観についても探ります。司会は、アシュモレアン美術館キュレーター、フリッチュ・レーナ博士が担当。
蜷川実花氏の作品は、2021年7月29日から、アシュモレアン美術館「TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY」展にて展示予定。同氏によるパラリンピック選手のポートレイトは、現在Daiwa Japan House Galleryにて展示中。
