16 April 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s Japan drawing ‘Shibuya’ has been used on the front cover of Gateways to Drawing, A Complete Guide, a book about drawing published by Thames & Hudson. Inside features drawings by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, van Gogh, Raphael, Durer, Ingres, Ando Hiroshige, Breughel, Daumier, Cezanne, Delacroix, William Blake, Alice
Read on26 February 2019
A new, large Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is being exhibited at ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, March 7th – 10th, Tokyo Japan. It is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, exhibiting artists include Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leonard Fujita, Michael Craig-Martin, Taro Okamoto, Julian Opie; as well as a range of more traditional Japanese arts (ink and calligraphy paintings, nihonga, pottery, netsuke).
Read on5 December 2018
One of our 2017 Daiwa Scholars Tumi Markan is currently helping to run the international component of the campaign – to raise the capital needed to buy the famous “Yamatorige (山鳥毛)”, an art sword designated as a National Treasure of Japan, for the internationally-recognised Bizen Osafune Sword Museum – both creating and running the online crowdfunding page, as well as working with the museum’s master craftspeople to create promotional and informative content for the project.
Read on20 November 2018
Alumnus and artist Carl Randall is included in the group exhibition Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ, 29th November 2018 until 5th January 2019. Flowers is one of the UK’s leading commercial galleries, with galleries in New York, Central London and East London, representing prominent British figurative painters such as
Read on9 November 2018
A combined concert and workshop by Shinozuka Zuiō of the Shinozuka school. She performs in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday 13 November; then on Friday at SOAS, she will introduce kyō-mai, a dance genre related to both Kabuki and geisha. She will perform for 30-35 minutes, then teach her audience – women and men – to
Read on10 July 2018
Up-and-coming Japanese artist Ohgetsu Fujita visits the UK especially to present her unique take on the art of calligraphy. The result is an evolution of tradition which focuses on spatial beauty. Hundred Years Gallery is proud to showcase her collection of Emoji-inspired artwork, fusing both traditional calligraphy (*1), Zenei-Shodou (*2) and her own creative techniques, which Fujita-san has mastered over the course of her career.
Read on28 June 2018
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s large painting ‘Tokyo Portrait’ is part of the exhibition ‘Sea of Desire’ at Fondation Carmignac Museum, Porquerolles Island, South of France, June 2 – November 4, 2018: The painting was bought by Fondation Carmignac in 2014, joining works in their collection by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy
Read on15 June 2018
Kizuna: Japan | Wales | Design is the latest exhibition to open at the National Museum Cardiff. The exhibition showcases Japanese design and culture and celebrates Wales’s role in the exchange of Japanese art and design.
Read on8 June 2018
Megan and the Chaos Blossom, 10 June–17 June:
Tom Lewis’s final exhibition in London before he embarks on a month long residency in Japan.
Lewis’ work takes its inspiration from a range of sources – from woodblock prints and manga to pop surrealism.
23 May 2018
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall recently completed a large painting of Piccadilly Circus – a large monochrome oil painting depicting the crowds and buildings of a busy central London area, involving painting 70+ portraits from life. A short video showing the making of the painting is now available online (1min 42secs): Piccadilly Circus video, YouTube
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