Lot 1 - Carl Randall - City of London

About  

Carl Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art (BA Honours Fine Art Painting), the Royal Drawing School (the Drawing Year), and Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Japan (MFA and Doctorate in Painting). He has exhibited several times at the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award (2024, 2013, 2012, 2002), and was their Travel Award winner in 2012, where he had a display of 16 paintings. He has also exhibited numerous times at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2019, 2013, 2009 2012); The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries (2024, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2012), and at Flowers Gallery London (each year 2017-present). He has had solo exhibitions in London and Tokyo, and has taken part in Art Fairs in Switzerland, Japan, London, Turkey and Taiwan. Carl has work in the collections of The Royal Collection, University College London Art Museum, Tokyo Geidai Art Museum Japan, and Foundation Carmignac Paris. He is also the winner of The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and The Nomura Art Prize Japan, as well as several other awards. His work has been featured on the BBC World Service and CNN. 

Education  

2009-2012  

Doctorate in Fine Art (Painting), Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo Geidai, Japan. 

2006-2009  

Masters in Fine Art (Painting), Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo Geidai, Japan.  

2003-2005  

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship, Tokyo Japan 

2002-2003  

The Drawing Year, The Royal Drawing School, London 

1995-1999  

BA Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting), The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London 

Solo Exhibitions  

2014  

Shōzō [肖像], Berloni, London, UK 

The Tokaido Highway: Portaits from Edo to the Present [東海道ハイウェイ ー江戸から現代の肖像ー ], The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, Japan 

Group Exhibitions 

2024 

Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK 

The Contemporary British Portrait Painters Exhibition, The Department Store, Brixton, London, UK 

Reassorted, curated by art critic William Feaver, Mall Galleries, London, UK 

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK  

2023  

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St, London, UK 

2020  

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK  

Awards 

2012 

BP Travel Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London 

2011 

Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo Geidai University, Tokyo, Japan 

2009 

Keiseikai Foundation Scholarship 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

“Carl's work often combines people and places - narrative compositions portraying everyday scenes of life. This acrylic sketch is a study based on a previous large oil on canvas, part of a series of crowd paintings that are typical of Carl’s work. Started upon his return to the UK after a decade spent in Japan, his London paintings depict the people and places of crowded city centre areas such as Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge, Thames River, Primrose Hill, the Chelsea Flower Show, and the East End. Densely packed groups of faces anre inspired by the crowds of the city, and a response to urban issues such as overpopulation, isolation and urban alienation. These documents of London were made in collaboration with hundreds of residents of the city, each visiting his studio to sit for their portraits.”