17 September 2020
Maddie Baker, History and Japanese student at the University of Exeter has written about this year’s inaugural London Mural Festival. The Festival featured more than one hundred and fifty artists from around the world. The Japanese artists that the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has supported at the event this year are: Fate, Imaone, and Suiko.
Read on15 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.
Read on9 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.
Read on9 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.
Read on25 August 2020
The London Mural Festival kicked off in September 2020 with over 150 global artists heading to London to paint more than 40 large-scale walls across the capital. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation supported travel to the UK by the three participating Japanese artists: Fate, Imaone and Suiko. Lee Bofkin, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Street Art, the
Read on15 July 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation announces that Sir Tim Hitchens has been appointed Chair of the Trustees with effect from 9 July 2020. He succeeds Sir Peter Williams CBE FRS FREng, who has served in this role since 2012.
Sir Tim has had a long professional and personal association with Japan, first visiting in 1977. He was British Ambassador in Tokyo from 2012 to 2016, and is currently President of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Read on14 July 2020
Electric Japan is a free online festival celebrating work by a range of Japanese artists in dance, theatre, fashion, film and photography. Taking place from 1 – 7 August, it is a rare glimpse into Japan’s burgeoning new arts scene.
Read on8 July 2020
In the fourteenth installment of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration newsletter, the Foundation’s Director General Jason James proposed to publish his translation of “Yoshino Kuzu” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki at the rate of one chapter a week (there are six chapters in total).
Read on5 July 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (March 2020 round). Durham University will receive support for a project with colleagues at Rissho and Tokyo Universities investigating Japanese heatwave related health impacts in order to better manage the health risk arising
Read on29 June 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.
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