11 September 2013
One of our 2012 Daiwa Scholars, Annabel James, has a passion for modern Japanese art. She ventured out to Japan on a Daiwa Scholarship with the aim of building on this experience in order to then undertake further study in East Asian Art, become an art critic, a curator or a dealer. Her review of
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We are delighted to announce that Becca Voelcker, one of our 2013 Daiwa Scholars, has been awarded this year’s prestigious National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship.
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The Tokyo School of Japanese Language (The Naganuma School) held its Speech Contest (one of their three big events) on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at the Sakura Hall of the Shibuya Cultural Center Owada. This is the first time the speech contest has been held outside the School. Daiwa Scholar 2012 (DS 2012 ), Nick Hall, was awarded the first prize among
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As 2012 BP Travel Award winner, former Daiwa Scholar Carl Randall trekked along Japan’s Tokaido Highway in the footsteps of woodblock artist Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), recording the people he met en route. The National Portrait Gallery is running a competition in connection with Carl’s current exhibition, In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan.
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Charlotte Payne, a 2009 Daiwa Scholar, worked in the Kobokan community centre in Sumida-ku, and also as a researcher on Yakushima island, in Kagoshima during the work placement part of the programme.
Leaving Japan at the end of the Scholarship in March 2011, Charlotte went on to work with an NGO in India, and with the Medical Research Council and Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford.
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Former Daiwa Scholar Carl Randall’s signed, limited edition hardback catalogue, Japan Portraits, is available for purchase at the Hayward Gallery giftshop, Southbank Centre, or through Carl’s website.
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After a nationwide search, BBC Radio 3 and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) unveiled the ten academics that have been named New Generation Thinkers 2013. The partnership between BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) aims to find the academic broadcasters of the future – the brightest minds who
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The work of former Daiwa Scholar Dr Carl Randall, winner of the 2012 BP Travel Award, will also be included in this year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, in an exhibition titled In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan. The exhibition will run from 20 June until 15 September 2013.
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Dr Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar and MEXT Scholar, will have one of his paintings on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 10 June to 18 August 2013. Do drop by at the Royal Academy from this Saturday, 10 June onwards to see Carl’s painting, ‘Tokyo Subway’. This is tremendous news as only 1,000 works chosen
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Former Daiwa Scholar Jessie Turnbull has published ‘Forces of Nature’ a book on the work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature ISBN 9781616891015 Publication date 9/19/2012 5.5 x 8 inches (14.0 x 20.3 cm), Paperback 144 pages, 50 color illustrations, 25 b/w illustrations Rights: World; (0.0) http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891015 http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html The work of
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