22 January 2014

TOKYO PORTRAITS: EXCLUSIVE ARTIST TALK BY FORMER DAIWA and MEXT SCHOLAR CARL RANDALL on 29 January 2013

Categorised under: Other News

Former Daiwa Scholar, BP Travel Award 2012 winner and MEXT alumnus Carl Randall’s latest solo exhibition is now on display at Daiwa Foundation Japan House. Tokyo Portraits is a series of figurative paintings inspired by the people and places of Tokyo – responses to everyday life in Japan’s capital, as seen through the eyes of a visiting UK artist.

Carl will give a gallery talk to members of the British Association of Japanese Government/MEXT Scholars (BAMS) onWednesday 29th January. 6.30-8pm at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace (Outer Circle) London NW1 4QP. Please RSVP to bamsevents@hotmail.com to let us know you’re coming.

Carl was based in Tokyo as an artist from 2003 to 2013, having been awarded a Daiwa Scholarship, followed by a Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. This extended period was used to develop his interest in cities and portraiture, responding to the people and places of Tokyo. During this time he has completed a Master’s Degree and Doctorate in Oil Painting at Japan’s prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts (where he won the 2011 Nomura Art Prize, for the top graduate exhibition), was selected to be artist in residence in Hiroshima City (to meet and make portraits of survivors of the Atomic Bomb), and was chosen to represent Japan as artist in residence at the 2007 Formula 1 Races. He has also exhibited widely in Japan, including Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, and Tokyo Art Award 2009. In the UK, he won the 2012 BP Travel Award from the National Portrait Gallery in London, to walk in the footsteps of Hiroshige and document The Tokaido Highway as it exists today. The works were exhibited at the gallery during the summer, and are now touring the UK.

Carl has kindly agreed to give an artist’s talk exclusively for MEXT alumni, partners, friends and guests, in which he will talk about responding to Japan as a foreign artist, and themes in his work such as overpopulation, community and the individual and the group, as depicted in Tokyo Portraits.

Carl’s talk will begin at 6.30 and will be followed by wine and nibbles.

Please RSVP to bamsevents@hotmail.com to let us know you’re coming.

The exhibition runs from Jan 16th to March 12th 2014. Further info: http://www.dajf.org.uk/exhibition/tokyo-portraits-by-carl-randall

CARL RANDALL: http://www.carlrandall.com/

‘Japan Portraits’ – Short Documentary (National Portrait Gallery website): http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2013/the-exhibition/bp-travel-award-2012-2.php