12 October 2022
The current exhibition at Klei in London is of work by Daiwa Scholarships alumna Symy Ong. Currently Oxford-based, artist Symy Ong is exhibiting her first body of work back in the UK since spending time in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship!
Read on16 September 2022
Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
Read on7 September 2022
Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko
Read on6 September 2022
16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
Read on4 September 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
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。
