25 June 2013
Tomoko Yoneda, a Japanese photographer from Akashi and now residing in London, has featured in many exhibitions all over the world from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to La Maison Européene de la Photographe in Paris.
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Pip Dickens, a former exhibitor at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, will be showcasing her pieces in the Screen exhibition at the Rugby Art Galley & Museum from 29 June-31 August 2013.
Read on21 June 2013
After a nationwide search, BBC Radio 3 and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) unveiled the ten academics that have been named New Generation Thinkers 2013. The partnership between BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) aims to find the academic broadcasters of the future – the brightest minds who
Read on20 June 2013
Vote by Monday, 24 June 2013 for your favourite wayfarer! A former Daiwa Scholar is in the line-up!
Read on19 June 2013
The work of former Daiwa Scholar Dr Carl Randall, winner of the 2012 BP Travel Award, will also be included in this year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, in an exhibition titled In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan. The exhibition will run from 20 June until 15 September 2013.
Read on19 June 2013
Dr Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar and MEXT Scholar, will have one of his paintings on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 10 June to 18 August 2013. Do drop by at the Royal Academy from this Saturday, 10 June onwards to see Carl’s painting, ‘Tokyo Subway’. This is tremendous news as only 1,000 works chosen
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Professor Shigeru Aoki, a researcher of the Antarctic Ocean at Hokkaido University, is currently engaged in collaborative research with Professor Karen Heywood, a world-leading scientist of Antarctic Ocean dynamics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to have awarded him a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant. Professor Aoki has kindly written about his
Read on18 June 2013
The Japanese artist Tomie Mitsuhashi will be exhibiting her paintings at The Kaetsu Educational & Cultural Centre, Cambridge from 3 – 10 July 2013 (10.00 – 17.00).
Read on18 June 2013
Yukako Shibata has long explored the myriad possibilities of capturing fleeting colours through painting which takes sculptural form, and in Colour Shadow at the Lightgallery, London, (2-20 July 2013) shows recent, glorious pieces on this theme.
Read on18 June 2013
The Ledbury Poetry Festival, the ‘biggest and best poetry festival in the UK,’ will take place this year from 5– 14 July. The festival features poets from all over the world and this year three poets have been invited from Japan to perform and give talks about their work. UK-based Japanese performance poet Kazuko Hohki
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