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.

Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art London (BA Fine Art), the Royal Drawing School London (The Drawing Year), and Tokyo University of the Arts Japan (MFA & PhD Fine Art).

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. 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". The exhibition subsequently toured to The Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotland, The Wolverhampton Art Gallery England, and then formed his solo exhibition in Japan ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’ 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. A short documentary, Carl Randall - Japan Portraits was also made, showing the artist painting and drawing in Japan. His Japan paintings were also the subject of a 2016 ‘World Update’ interview by the BBC World Service.

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