Carl Randall

Carl Randall

Carl Randall

Artist Carl Randall
Born 1975
UK
Nationality British
Education Slade School of Fine Art, Royal 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 work is based on images of modern Japan and London.

Education

Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art London (BA Fine Art),[1] the Royal Drawing School London (The Drawing Year),[2] and Tokyo University of the Arts Japan (MFA & PhD Fine Art).[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] 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".[5][6][7] The exhibition subsequently toured to The Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotland,[8] The Wolverhampton Art Gallery England,[7] and then formed his solo exhibition in Japan ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’[9][10] at The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, where the paintings were exhibited alongside Hiroshige's original The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō woodblock prints. In conjunction with these exhibitions, the book Carl Randall - Japan Portraits was published, illustrating paintings drawings made in Japan, with a foreword by British author Desmond Morris, and an introduction by the late American writer Donald Richie.[11] A short documentary, Carl Randall - Japan Portraits was also made, showing the artist painting and drawing in Japan.[12] His Japan paintings were also the subject of a 2016 ‘World Update’ article by the BBC World Service.[13]

Carl Randall at The National Portrait Gallery London.
Carl Randall with his Japan Travel Award work at The National Portrait Gallery London, 2013.[5]

Awards

As well as The BP Travel Award, he also received first prize in the 1998 RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition,[14] second prize twice in The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97),[15] and The 2011 Nomura Art Prize[16] (awarded by Tokyo University of Arts for the top PhD graduate exhibition). Scholarships include Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation[17] and MEXT[3] to continue his career as a painter in Tokyo, where he lived for 10 years.[18] Artist in residencies include ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1, Fuji Speedway - to document Formula 1 races in Japan[19] and Hiroshima Art Document, to meet and paint portraits of hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bomb[20] (the resulting drawings now in permanent collection of University College London Museum[21]). In 2014, his large canvas 'Tokyo Portrait' was bought by Fondation Carmignac in Paris,[22] joining works in the collection by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein, Jean-Michel Basquait, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter.[23]

Exhibitions

Carl Randall - Tokyo Noodle Bar painting
Mr. Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, winner of the 2012 BP Travel Award, at The National Portrait Gallery in London[24]

His works have been exhibited at a number of exhibitions and galleries, including the BP Portrait Awards at The National Portrait Gallery London (2002, 2012 & 2013[25]); the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2003, 2009[26] and 2013[27][28]); and the Jerwood Drawing Prize[29] and Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual exhibition 2012.[30][31] In 2014, he had two solo exhibitions in central London of work inspired by the people and places of Tokyo: ‘Tokyo Portraits’[32] at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (exhibition opened by novelist David Mitchell [33]), and ‘Shōzō [肖像]’ at Berloni London.[34][35] In the same year, his solo exhibition ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’[9][10] was at The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art in Japan, where his paintings were exhibited alongside Ando Hiroshige's original The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō woodblock prints (he was also commissioned by the Museum to make a painting for their collection - a contemporary view of Mount Fuji, as depicted in one of Hiroshige's prints[36]). Participation in international art fairs include Art Taipei, Taiwan,[37] Art Volta, Basel Switzerland[38] and Art International Istanbul.[39][40] In Japan, he has exhibited at Tokyo Art Award,[41] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, and a solo exhibition at Fuma Contemporary Tokyo, Bunkyo Art.[42] In 2015, he was commissioned by HRH Prince of Wales to paint a World War Two D-Day Veteran for The Royal Collection, exhibited at The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace[43][44] and Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh Scotland.[45][46] In 2016, his work was exhibited and auctioned at Christie's New York.[47][48][49] Earlier in his career, he was included in the 2004 group exhibition 'Being Present' at The Jerwood Gallery London, showcasing eight young UK figurative painters who primarily work from life.[50][51][52]

London Portraits

'London Portraits' are a series of 15 paintings made upon Randall's return to the UK, of people who have contributed to their fields in British culture and society.[53][54][55] Each sitter was asked to choose a location in London for the background of their portraits. Participants include newscaster Jon Snow, actress Julie Walters, comedian Jo Brand, animator Nick Park, author/illustrator Raymond Briggs, novelist David Mitchell, actress Katie Leung, illustrator Dave McKean, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, movie producer Jeremy Thomas, film-maker Julien Temple, poet Simon Armitage, choreographer Akram Khan, zoologist Desmond Morris, actor Antony Sher and Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory Doran. A short documentary Carl Randall - London Portraits was made in conjunction with the project, showing Randall meeting and painting the sitters - each explaining their choice of location in London for their portraits.[56] Prints of this series of paintings are being displayed at the print room of The National Portrait Gallery, London.[53][54][55]

Lecturing/talks

Randall has been invited to give talks at University College London Museum,[57] The London Art Fair,[58] CharterHouse School,[59] Cambridge University,[15] The British Council in Tokyo,[15] The National Portrait Gallery London[60] and The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation (talk chaired by the Head of Undergraduate Painting at The Slade School).[61] In Tokyo, he was Adjunct Professor in Fine Art at Temple University Japan[62] and painting and drawing tutor at Suidobata Art Academy.[63] In the UK, he has been invited to give painting and drawing workshops at Teesside University,[64] The Art Academy London[65] and Heatherleys School of Fine Art London.[66]

Selected works

Colour painting of Japanese nightclub
Roppongi Nightclub. Oil on canvas, 65 x 130cm. Winner of The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo. Collection of Tokyo Geidai Museum, Japan.[16] 
Eight-panel colour painting
Tokaido Highway Paintings. Oil on canvas, 42 x 30cm each. BP Travel Award work 2013. Exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery London.[5] 
Monochrome painting of Shinjuku station commuters
Shinjuku. Oil on canvas, 100 x 230cm. BP Travel Award work. Exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery London.[25] 
Monochrome painting of Tokyo subway commuters
Tokyo Subway. Oil on canvas, 130 x 162cm. Exhibited at The 2013 RA Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London.[27] 
Monochrome painting consisting of large number of Japanese faces
Tokyo Portrait. Acrylic on canvas, 182 x 227cm. Collection of Fondation Carmignac, Paris France.[22] 
6 pencil and ink drawings of eldery Japanese people, Hibakusha, Survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima
Hibakusha Portraits (Survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima). Pencil and ink on paper, 35 x 50cm each. Collection of University College London Museum.[21] 
Monochrome painting consisting of large number of Japanese faces and Tokyo cityscape
Tokyo. Oil on canvas, 65 x 150cm. 
A series of colour oil portraits by artist Carl Randall, of 15 people who have contributed to British culture and society. Each portrait is set against a London backdrop chosen by the sitters
London Portraits. Oil on canvas, 30 x 42cm each (15 panels), 2014-16. 

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. 1 2 Randall, Carl (2012), Tokyo Portraits - by former MEXT scholar Carl Randall, The Japanese Embassy, London, retrieved 11 December 2013
  4. ↑ US artist wins £25,000 BP Portrait prize with painting of 'Auntie'. ‘Carl Randall - Painting the faces in Japan's crowded cities’., The Guardian, 2012
  5. 1 2 3 The 2012 BP Travel Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013
  6. ↑ 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
  7. 1 2 Susan (19 June 2013), In the Footsteps of Hiroshige - The Tokaido Highway and Portraits of Modern Japan, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, retrieved 11 December 2013
  8. ↑ Victoria Pease (12 November 2013). "Painting Japan: Carl Randall on bringing Asia to Aberdeen". STV. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  9. 1 2 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
  10. 1 2 Follow in the footsteps of Carl Randall on the Tokaido Highway (Time Out Tokyo), Time Out Tokyo, Japan, 2014
  11. ↑ Mumford, Rachel (9 July 2013), Carl Randall's 'Japan Portraits' available for purchase, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, retrieved 11 December 2013
  12. ↑ "Video: Carl Randall in Japan", Artists & Illustrators, London: Chelsea Magazines Ltd., 31 July 2013, retrieved 11 December 2013
  13. ↑ BBC World Service: World Update. ‘Carl Randall - Painting the faces in Japan's crowded cities’., BBC, 2016
  14. ↑ The 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. "Fresh Fields, New Faces", The Sunday Times, London, 6 September 1998, page 8
  15. 1 2 3 Carl Randall – Resume - Introduction., www.carlrandall.com, 2015
  16. 1 2 The 2012 Nomura Art Prize, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2012
  17. ↑ Daiwa Scholars 2003, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2003, retrieved 11 December 2013
  18. ↑ Carl Randall- Picturing a Culture, JapanGasm blog, Tokyo, 16 July 2013, retrieved 12 December 2013
  19. ↑ ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1, Car and Driver Magazine, Japan, December 2007
  20. ↑ Susan (26 June 2012), 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, retrieved 11 December 2013
  21. 1 2 UCL Art Museum acquires Carl Randall's 'Hibakusha' Portraits, The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2014
  22. 1 2 Fondation Carmignac - Carl Randall, Fondation Carmignac Paris, 2014
  23. ↑ Fondation Carmignac Artists, Fondation Carmignac Paris, 2014
  24. ↑ Prize Winners, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  25. 1 2 BP Portrait Award 2013, The National Portrait gallery, London, 2013
  26. ↑ Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo by Carl Randall, The National Portrait gallery, London, 2012
  27. 1 2 10 reasons to visit the 2013 RA Summer show, Making a Mark, June 10, 2013
  28. ↑ Carl Randall work selected for prestigious RA Summer Exhibition, Daiwa Anglo Japanese foundation, June 9, 2013
  29. ↑ Susan (11 September 2012), 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, retrieved 11 December 2013
  30. ↑ "Carl Randall", The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme, London, 16 May 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  31. ↑ Susan (26 June 2012), Dr Carl Randall, former Daiwa Scholar, exhibiting at the Mall Galleries, London in May..., London: The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
  32. ↑ 'Tokyo Portraits' solo exhibition, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  33. ↑ 'Tokyo Portraits' private view opened by David Mitchell, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  34. ↑ 'Shōzō [肖像]' solo exhibition, Berloni Gallery London, 2014
  35. ↑ Carl Randall's Shōzō [肖像] at the Berloni Gallery London, 17 September to 15 November 2014., The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2014
  36. ↑ Carl Randall's new painting of Miho No Matsubara, The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2016
  37. ↑ Art Taipei 2012, The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme, London, 2012, retrieved 11 December 2013
  38. ↑ Art Volta 2014, Basel Switzerland, The Prince's Drawing School Alumni Programme, London, 2014
  39. ↑ ArtInternational - Exhibiting Artists, ArtInternational, 2015
  40. ↑ Carl Randall's work on display at ArtInternational Istanbul, 4-7 September 2015, The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2015
  41. ↑ Tokyo Art Award 2009, Art Award Tokyo, Maranouchi, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
  42. ↑ Solo Exhibition Tokyo, Tokyo Art Beat, Tokyo, Japan, 2009, retrieved 13 December 2013
  43. ↑ The Last Parade - Portraits of the veterans of D-Day., The Telegraph, 2015
  44. ↑ The Last of the Tide: Twelve portraits of D-Day veterans go on show at Buckingham Palace., Culture 24, 2015
  45. ↑ Last of the Tide, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh., The Royal Collection Trust, 2016
  46. ↑ Carl Randall's D-Day veteran portrait will be on display in Edinburgh from 15 January to 28 March 2016., The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation London, 2016
  47. ↑ Christie's New York Exhibition., Christie's, 2016
  48. ↑ Christie's New York., The Royal Drawing School London, 2016
  49. ↑ Carl Randall exhibits at Christie's New York., The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation London, 2016
  50. ↑ Being Present - Eight Painters. (PDF), The Jerwood Space, London, 2004
  51. ↑ We're still here, say exponents of oldest art. Forgotten painters challenge the avant garde., The Guardian Newspaper, UK, 12 May 2004
  52. ↑ The Portrait Now., The National Portrait Gallery, 2006
  53. 1 2 London Portraits by Carl Randall., Making a Mark, Art Blog, London, 2016
  54. 1 2 Carl Randall's 'London Portraits' on display in National Portrait Gallery., The Royal Drawing School, London, 2016
  55. 1 2 Carl Randall's London Portraits., The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation London, 2016
  56. ↑ Carl Randall's London Portraits - Video Documentary., The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation London, 2016
  57. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at UCL Museum., Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2015
  58. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at London Art Fair., Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2015
  59. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at Charterhouse School., Charterhouse School, 2014
  60. ↑ Carl Randall Talk at Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation., Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, 2014
  61. ↑ Temple University Japan - Staff., Temple University Japan campus, 2015
  62. ↑ Suidobata Art Academy Tokyo - Staff., Suidobata Art Academy Tokyo, 2013
  63. ↑ Teesside University - Staff., Teesside University, 2014
  64. ↑ The Art Academy - Staff., The Art Academy, London, 2014
  65. ↑ Heatherleys School of Fine Art - Staff., Heatherleys School of Fine Art, London, 2016

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