13 June 2019
The National Portrait Gallery London is now displaying and selling prints of Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s recent three oil paintings. To celebrate 30 years of the BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery has collaborated with seven past BP exhibitors to create selection of their works as prints, including Carl’s large London
Read on10 June 2019
THE鍵KEY: Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s site-specific, dramatic musical work, inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novelThe Key (1956) featured in Powell Tuck Associates’ event on 27 June 2019 as part of the London Festival of Architecture, and made its UK debut as part of the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2019.
THE鍵KEY received its world premiere to great acclaim at Nakacho House, Tokyo in May 2018, supported by The Mutomai Fund and Kickstarter Donators and went on to have a longer run of performances at Hirakushi Denchu House and Atelier, 19 to 26 May 2019, supported by Arts Council Tokyo and the Japan Arts Council.
Read on30 May 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting his recent large oil painting Waterloo Bridge, London at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 from 10 June to 12 August at The Royal Academy of Arts, central London. Approximately 700 works from public submission were selected from over almost 12,000 international entries.
Read on16 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 on15 April 2019
2017 Daiwa Scholar Edmund Stenson’s new documentary, Finding Fukue has won the best film award in the NSI (National Screen Institute Canada) Online Short Film Festival. The film went live on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) website and on YouTube last year. It reached nearly half a million views in two weeks, and the Foundation
Read on12 March 2019
We will be holding a talk about the Daiwa Scholarships programme and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies on Wednesday 22nd May at 3pm at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
Read on3 March 2019
A Master’s student from Japan will be able to study at Cambridge from this October thanks to a new scholarship, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Cambridge Scholarship, which will be jointly funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Cambridge Trust. The scholarship will fund the tuition fee for any one-year Master’s course available at the University, up to a cap of £35,000, as well as a stipend. It is tenable at any College within the University of Cambridge. Applicants must be citizens of Japan.
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 on4 February 2019
As a Daiwa Scholar, Ed Knight spent September 2008 oblivious to the unfolding global financial crisis. He was on his homestay living in the foothills of the Japanese Alps whilst working on a Japanese apple orchard in Nagano prefecture. He has continued to support UK-Japan apple links and recently hosted a group of apple growers from Nagano on a visit to the UK. To find out more, please read on.
Read on20 December 2018
On 29 October 2018, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was delighted to be awarded the Ambassador’s Commendation. Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka commended the Foundation for its accomplishments in fostering closer links between Japan and the UK. The award was bestowed during a reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Foundation and was attended by many recipients of
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