5 November 2020
Former Daiwa Scholar Dr Christopher Harding’s new book, The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives was published in November 2020. The book’s twenty portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako, via shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers. (Read
詳細へ15 October 2020
Artist and Daiwa Scholarship alumnus, Carl Randall’s new painting “Nihonbashi” will be exhibited in a group show in Tokyo from 17 to 31 October 2020. Other artists in the show include Yuta Nakazato, Ayako Kita, Ryota Nishioka, Kohei Yamada and Hoshiki Ara.
詳細へ15 September 2020
“A dozen artists from Europe and Asia inhabit ‘Super Flatland’ at White Conduit Projects. Some are there as an artistic strategy, either for aesthetic reasons or to generate confusion between what is 2D and what 3D. Others investigate the various ways in which reality might get ‘flattened’ – when it goes online, for example.”
-Paul Carey-Kent, 2020, Super Flatland
The exhibition includes work by Kate Groobey, winner of the 2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, and runs from Wednesday 16 September to Sunday 18 October 2020.
詳細へ11 September 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting a privately commissioned portrait painting as part of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, the Mall Galleries London, 16 to 26 September 2020. And, mounted high-quality giclée prints of some of Carl’s Japan paintings will be on sale at the National Portrait Gallery London, for a very limited time only.
詳細へ10 September 2020
Artist Amanda Chambers returned for a third residency at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in early 2020. “Life in the normally sleepy town of Shigaraki was frenetic. Tourists, excited by a TV drama based on a local potter, had started to visit en masse. When the virus hit Japan the hordes continued to come until the State of Emergency was declared and the town resumed its slow pace.” You can read a full account via the button below.
詳細へ9 September 2020
Art Action UK is hosting an interactive online panel discussion on Saturday, 12 September (13:00 to 14:00 British Summertime). The discussion will focus on artists’ experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic – as lived in Japan, the UK, France and Germany – with time for the audience to ask questions and share their experiences. Through this event, Art Action UK will seek to discover how countries can demonstrate the value arts and culture by actively supporting those who contribute to their economy and wellbeing.
詳細へ25 August 2020
The London Mural Festival is confirmed to start in September 2020 with over 150 global artists heading to London to paint more than 40 large-scale walls across the capital alongside a plethora of smaller activations. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is supporting travel to participate in the festival by three Japanese artists: Fate, Imaone and Suiko.
詳細へ13 August 2020
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詳細へ31 July 2020
23 July 2020
When I left Japan to visit family in early March, the UK had yet to have a single death, and Japan was only applying entry ban to a very limited number of regions. By the end of the month, the UK, along with most of Europe had entered lockdown, and after developing symptoms myself, I
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