26 September 2017
Colossus, a one night only event set within a historic chapel, on 3rd October 4-6pm featuring Jay Price, 2012 Daiwa Art Prize finalist. Jay Price, Henry Hussey and Augustine Carr will preview new work that explores faith, conflict, history, the written word, destruction and creation.
Read on18 September 2017
Experience a night of experimental Japanese music, sand art, authentic Japanese cuisine and specialty Sake at London’s newest venue, The Shaft!
The event will be held over two days at The Shaft, Brunel Museum.
① 8pm, Friday 20th October 2017 (7pm food & drinks)
② 3pm, Saturday 21st October 2017 (2pm food & drinks)
Tickets: £10/£5 concessions
11 August 2017
Last chance to see Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s ‘London Portraits’ hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in London. They will be on display until the end of August 2017.
Read on28 July 2017
Started in 2009, the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize aims to introduce British artists to Japan by awarding the winner a solo exhibition in a Japanese gallery. Each year a winner is chosen from three finalists, all of whom go on to achieve further prizes and awards. This review recaps the finalists from each year and their
Read on20 July 2017
Organised and run by the Japanese Garden Society, this major event at the Kaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge features world-class speakers from the UK, USA and Japan, including Kendall Brown and Marc Peter Keane. Theme: The transmission of the Japanese Garden beyond Japan from 1868 onwards; the evolution and significance of the Japanese
Read on15 June 2017
You are invited to participate in two workshops that will take place in early July at Arts Catalyst and to actively engage in the creation of a cloth that will be sent back to Fukushima as a gesture of reciprocity. During each session Arts Catalyst will bring people from different communities and backgrounds together to help us reflect upon issues of displacement, migration and belonging in our area and beyond – 1 and 15 July 2015.
Read on15 June 2017
The ceramics studio has always been a place where tradition meets experimentation. Spanning 100 years, this exhibition explores the diverse forms, energies and locations that define the modern studio. Ranging from the rise of studio pottery in the 1910s to a number of new commissions by a young generation of UK-based artists, That Continuous Thing – a quote from the American artist Peter Voulkos – traces the changing shape of the ceramics studio over the last century.
Read on25 May 2017
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting Postcode Films in its outreach/engagement strategy to promote core issues of minority rights, equality and individual freedoms in Japan/UK related to ‘Of Love & Law’, their feature-length documentary.
Read on9 May 2017
“Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making” is a Craftspace and Outside In touring exhibition which launched at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester on 12 March 2016. The exhibition features 34 international (2 Japanese) and UK artists who express their creativity beyond the bounds of convention. The exhibition will tour to eight venues around the UK. It is currently at the Barony Centre, West Kilbride, 8 April – 10 June 2017. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting the exhibition with a Small Grant.
Read on3 May 2017
Carl Randall’s portraits of actress Julie Walters and comedienne Jo Brand are exhibiting at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition at The Mall Galleries London, May 4th – 19th. The oil paintings were made as a result of sittings with Julie Walters (Academy Award nominated and BAFTA/Golden Globe, best known for roles in Educating Rita,
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