Carl Randall

Carl Randall

Carl Randall

Artist Carl Randall
Born 1975
UK
Nationality British
Education Slade School of Fine Art, Prince's Drawing School, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Known for Painting/Fine art
Awards 2012 BP Travel Award, London; 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Japan; 1998 Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition 1st Prize
Website
www.carlrandall.com

Carl Randall (born 1975) is a British figurative painter, whose recent work is based on images of modern Japan.

Education

Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art[1] and The Prince's Drawing School[2] in London, and Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan.[3]

Portraits of Modern Japan

Randall was awarded The 2012 BP Travel Award, for his proposal to walk in the footsteps of the Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker Ando Hiroshige, creating paintings of the people and places of contemporary Japan.[4][5] His project involved spending time in Japan resulting in a group of 15 paintings exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of The 2013 BP Portrait Award exhibition, under the title "In the Footsteps of Hiroshige - The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan".[6][7][8] The exhibition subsequently toured to The Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland (Nov 2013 - Feb 2014),[9] and Wolverhampton Art Gallery (March – June 2014).[8] In conjunction with this, the hardback catalogue Carl Randall - Japan Portraits illustrating paintings drawings made in Japan was published, with a foreword by British author Desmond Morris, and an introduction by the late American writer Donald Richie.[10] A short documentary, Carl Randall - Japan Portraits was also made, showing the artist painting and drawing in Japan.[11]

Awards

As well as The BP Travel Award, he also received first prize in the 1998 RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition,[12] second prize twice in The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97), and The 2011 Nomura Art Prize[13] (awarded by Tokyo University of Arts for the top graduate exhibition). Scholarships include Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation[14] and MEXT[3] to continue his career as a painter in Tokyo, where he lived for 10 years.[15] Artist in residencies include ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1, Fuji Speedway - to document Formula 1 races in Japan.[16] and Hiroshima Art Document, to meet and paint portraits of hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bomb[17] (the resulting drawings now in permanent collection of University College London Museum[18]) In 2014, his large canvas 'Tokyo Portrait' was bought by Fondation Carmignac in Paris,[19] joining works in the collection by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein, Jean-Michel Basquait, Jeff Koons.[20]

Exhibitions

His works have been exhibited at a number of galleries, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize[21] and Royal Society of Portrait Painters[22] in London 2012; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition;[23] and the 2012[24] & 2013[25] BP Portrait Awards at The National Portrait Gallery London. Participation in international art fairs include Art Taipei, Taiwan[26] and Art Volta, Basel, Switzerland.[27] In Japan, he has exhibited at Tokyo Art Award,[28] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, and a solo exhibition at Fuma Contemporary Tokyo, Bunkyo Art.[29] In 2014 he had two solo exhibitions in central London, showing work inspired by the people and places of Tokyo: ‘Tokyo Portraits’[30] at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (exhibition opened by novelist David Mitchell [31]), and ‘Shōzō [肖像]’ at Berloni London.[32][33] In the same year, his solo exhibition ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’[34][35] was at The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum in Japan, where his paintings were exhibited alongside Ando Hiroshige's original The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō woodblock prints.

Lecturing/talks

Randall has been invited to give talks at University College London Museum,[18] The London Art Fair,[36] CharterHouse School,[37] Cambridge University,[38] The British Council in Tokyo,[38] The National Portrait Gallery London[39] and The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation (chaired by the Head of Undergraduate Painting at The Slade School).[40] In Tokyo, he was Adjunct Professor in Fine Art at Temple University Japan[41] and painting and drawing tutor at Suidobata Art Academy.[42] In the UK, he has given painting and drawing workshops at Teesside University[43] and The Art Academy London.[44]

Books

References

  1. ↑ The Slade School of Fine Art Undergraduate Show 1999, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 1999
  2. ↑ The Princes Drawing School Alumni 2002/03, The Princes Drawing School, The Princes Foundation, 2002
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Randall, Carl (2012), Tokyo Portraits - by former MEXT scholar Carl Randall, The Japanese Embassy, London, retrieved 11 December 2013
  4. ↑ Prize Winners, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  5. ↑ Maev Kennedy (19 June 2012). "US artist wins £25,000 BP Portrait prize with painting of 'Auntie'". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  6. ↑ The 2012 BP Travel Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013
  7. ↑ In the Footsteps of Hiroshige - The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan - The 2012 BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery . "Tomorrows World", Artists & Illustrators Magazine, London, August 2013 issue, pages 34 - 37
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 In the Footsteps of Hiroshige - The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 19 June 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  9. ↑ Victoria Pease (12 November 2013). "Painting Japan: Carl Randall on bringing Asia to Aberdeen". STV. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  10. ↑ Mumford, Rachel (9 July 2013), Carl Randall's 'Japan Portraits' available for purchase, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, retrieved 11 December 2013
  11. ↑ "Video: Carl Randall in Japan", Artists & Illustrators (London: Chelsea Magazines Ltd.), 31 July 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013
  12. ↑ The 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. "Fresh Fields, New Faces", The Sunday Times, London, 6 September 1998, page 8
  13. ↑ The 2012 Nomura Art Prize, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2012
  14. ↑ Daiwa Scholars 2003, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2003, retrieved 11 December 2013
  15. ↑ Carl Randall- Picturing a Culture, JapanGasm blog, Tokyo, 16 July 2013, retrieved 12 December 2013
  16. ↑ ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1, Car and Driver Magazine, Japan, December 2007
  17. ↑ Dr Carl Randall, former Daiwa Scholar, exhibiting at the Mall Galleries, London in May; at London's National Portrait Gallery, 21 June-23 September 2012 and then touring, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 26 June 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 UCL Art Museum acquires Carl Randall's 'Hibakusha' Portraits= The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2014
  19. ↑ Fondation Carmignac Carl Randall, Fondation Carmignac Paris, 2014
  20. ↑ Fondation Carmignac Artists, Fondation Carmignac Paris, 2014
  21. ↑ Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar, will be exhibiting at the 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 12 September – 28 October, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 11 September 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  22. ↑ "Carl Randall", The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme (London), 16 May 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  23. ↑ Carl Randall work selected for prestigious RA Summer Exhibition, London: The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 19 June 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  24. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2012, The National Portrait gallery, London, 2012
  25. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2013, The National Portrait gallery, London, 2013
  26. ↑ Art Taipei 2012, The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme, London, 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  27. ↑ Art Volta 2014, Basel Switzerland, The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme, London, 2014
  28. ↑ Tokyo Art Award 2009, Art Award Tokyo, Maranouchi, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
  29. ↑ Solo Exhibition Tokyo, Tokyo Art Beat, Tokyo, Japan, 2009, retrieved 13 December 2013
  30. ↑ 'Tokyo Portraits' solo exhibition, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  31. ↑ 'Tokyo Portraits' private view opened by David Mitchell, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  32. ↑ 'Shōzō [肖像]' solo exhibition, Berloni Gallery London, 2014
  33. ↑ Carl Randall's Shōzō [肖像] at the Berloni Gallery London, 17 September to 15 November 2014., The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  34. ↑ Carl Randall's 'Tokaido Highway Portraits' to be displayed in Japan for the first time, 8 July to 11 September 2014., The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  35. ↑ Follow in the footsteps of Carl Randall on the Tokaido Highway (Time Out Tokyo), Time Out Tokyo, Japan, 2014
  36. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at London Art Fair., Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation =2015
  37. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at Charterhouse School., Charterhouse School =2014
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Carl Randall – Resume - Introduction., www.carlrandall.com = 2015
  39. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation., Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation = 2014
  40. ↑ Temple University Japan - Staff., Temple University Japan campus = 2015
  41. ↑ Suidobata Art Academy Tokyo - Staff., Suidobata Art Academy Tokyo = 2013
  42. ↑ Teesside University - Staff., Teesside University = 2014
  43. ↑ Carl Randall Tutor at The Art Academy., The Art Academy, London, 2014

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