10 May 2018
From 16 to 21 May 2018 at Gallery@Oxo in London, Fumio Nabata, Richard Bailey and Fiona Yaron-Field will be holding a photography exhibition, Positive Energies to raise awareness of Down’s Syndrome. Nabata’s work will feature photographs of children taken in a variety of countries including Japan, Myanmar, South Africa and the UK.
Read on8 May 2018
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is exhibiting his portraits of animator Nick Park (‘Wallace & Grommit’, ‘Shawn the Sheep’, ‘Chicken Run’, ‘Early Man’) and author/illustrator Raymond Briggs (‘The Snowman’, ‘When the Wind Blows’, ‘Ethel & Ernest’) at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2018, May 10th till 25th, at The Mall Galleries
Read on19 March 2018
The world of Jiji and Kinako through photographs taken by Akiko Dupont printed on Japanese traditional paper, washi. This exhibition, running at Sway Gallery in London from 12 to 25 April, focuses on Jiji, who has Alzheimer’s, and Kinako the cat.
Read on7 March 2018
WAGON is delighted to announce In Praise of Shadows, the first two-person exhibition between Atsuo Hukuda (b.1958, Hokkaido) and Alan Johnston (b.1945, Edinburgh) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan from 12 May until 3 June 2018. It is hosted by Suisei-Art, a project space based in a historical Kanazawa Machiya building.
Read on2 March 2018
From 5 to 17 March, Carl Randall’s portraits of movie producer Jeremy Thomas CBE, actor Sir Antony Sher, Gregory Doran, and zoologist Desmond Morris will be exhibited at The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries London, SW1.
Read on22 February 2018
Julie Brook will give an introduction to her land based sculptural work in wild and remote landscapes in Scotland, Libya and NW Namibia and talk about her current project in the Outer Hebrides and Japan: 6pm, 27 February 2018, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Read on15 December 2017
The featured two miniature paintings are included in the group exhibition Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St. Central London, 14th December 2017 – 6th January 2018. 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 Peter Howson, Ken
Read on30 October 2017
AREThé Festival: Japanese Ceramics and the Way of Tea – 5 November 10am-5pm. A study day celebrating Japanese ceramics and tea culture from talks, throwing demonstrations and Tea Ceremony in the Ashmolean to Raky Firing and Anagama Kilm opening at Wytham Woods (bus transport provided). With an evening reception at Oxford Ceramics Gallery. The programme of events is supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great-Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Read on23 October 2017
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce the three artists shortlisted for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018: Kate Groobey, Keith Milow and Mark Neville. The prestigious Daiwa Foundation Art Prize is a unique exhibition and creative development opportunity, which offers a British artist their first solo show at a gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
Read on29 September 2017
Running at BFI Southbank from Monday 16 October – Wednesday 29 November, Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama will be an opportunity for audiences to explore the cinema of Japan’s ‘Golden Age’, with a distinctly female focus. This Sight & Sound Deep Focus season includes several titles rarely screened in the UK, such as The Mistress (Shirō Toyoda, 1953), An Inlet of Muddy Water (Imai Tadashi, 1953) and The Blue Sky Maiden (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957), and
spotlights the magnificent female actors who starred in them. These include figures such as Setsuko Hara, one of Ozu’s key collaborators, Kinuyo Tanaka, the actor who became one of Japan’s first female directors and who was hailed in the West as ‘Japan’s Bette Davis’, and Machiko Kyō, best known as the star of Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). All of these stars endure as beloved icons of Japanese cinema, and their performances shine just as brightly as they did over fifty years ago.
