Asian Art Fund Scotland is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) supporting and championing Asian artists and art forms in Scotland. Our main job is to manage the Asian Art Awards every year at the Edinburgh Fringe (which takes place over around three and a half weeks every August) but we have plans for cultural exchanges in future.

For more information about participating in the Asian Art Awards (it’s free) please visit the how to apply page.

Our Trustees:

Richard Lewis is our chair and is a professional musician and regular fringe performer. As a former city councillor he also chaired the Culture Committee at the City of Edinburgh Council between 2012 and 2017. His personal website and fuller bio is here.

Chelsea Yang Zhou is a linguist as well as a cultural consultant and conference interpreter who works with cultural organisations in China and Europe. She is based near Oxford but regularly visits the Fringe in her role as trustee.

Jim Orr is the Treasurer of Asian Art Fund Scotland and oversees the administration of the charity. He’s a professional accountant who has worked in charity administration on and off since the late 1990s. He has supported the Asian
Art Awards since its inception in 2014, and has always loved the Festival and Fringe. He particularly likes drama.

Dr Chris Wang is the founder of the Asian Art Awards. Originally from Shanghai, Chris has worked in the arts for decades as a promoter and events organiser and has brought numerous fantastic shows to Scotland. He has a passion for building artistic links between Scotland and Asia.

Our Reviewers

Wenyi Pan is an Edinburgh-based visual artist and practice-based researcher working across installation, sculpture, text and moving image. Her practice explores performativity, participation and spectatorship, with particular attention to material, spatial and cultural contexts in relation to East Asian social and gender experience.

She holds an MFA in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art and is currently a practice-based PhD researcher at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her background in installation and time-based practice informs her approach to performance and stage-based work, with attention to space, gesture, audience experience and the relationship between body, image and voice. Alongside her artistic practice, she is an active workshop organiser in Scotland and brings a cross-cultural perspective to arts reviewing.

Diana Randolph, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, studied dance and received her bachelor’s degree in psychology. She also studied acting and voice in Los Angeles and went on to perform in numerous musicals and concerts in the US and Europe. Diana currently resides in Edinburgh, where she teaches musical theatre at Edinburgh College. She received her master’s in learning and teaching in the arts from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and still performs in the UK and Switzerland. Diana directed Richard Lewis’s *Songs for a* *New World* in the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe and his *Cabaret Called* Hamlet, which toured in the Guilin Festival China after its Fringe debut in 2023. She loves hiking, film, and watching U.S. football and European crime drama.

Jade Belletty is an Edinburgh-based artist and Co-ordinator for the Asian Art Awards. She spent over eight years working across the UK Government and major grant funding bodies. During this time, she developed policy initiatives to increase philanthropic giving in the arts sector at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and funded grassroots-led community projects in London. More recently, she has helped to deliver a range of programmes and large events for Scottish arts charities and higher education institutions. She is happiest when being creative (in whatever form that takes!), watching a good show or taking long walks.

Akiko is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde. She has attended the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year since bringing her own show to the festival in 1999. As a Londoner of Japanese heritage, she has a particular interest in shows that communicate stories of cultural exchange and the richnesses and tensions therein.

Debadrita Das is a Support Practitioner currently working and living in Edinburgh. She completed her B.A. in Sociology from Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta, India, in 2022, and graduated with an M.Sc. in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in 2023. Her academic work focuses on horror, women’s intersectional experiences, and gender studies. She is passionate about the arts, and enjoys being creative through reading, writing, and drawing.

Asha Trivedy is a Scottish South Asian arts worker and is the Asian Art Award’s Senior Project Co-ordinator. With an interest in cultural rights, she brings her experience working in community arts and events with Scotland’s many multicultural and multilingual communities. She is passionate about decolonising museums, heritage, craft and widening access to creative arts.

Lok Pui Lo is a Hong Kong-born multidisciplinary artist and creative producer based in Scotland. Her work spans performance, storytelling, and cultural programming, exploring themes of migration, belonging, and emotional inheritance through community-centred and cross-artform practice.

Edna Boey is an Australian-Singaporean arts worker with a background in languages. She has project-managed various arts events during her time spent working at cultural institutions and arts service organisations, and has a particular interest in community-led festivals.

Jiayi Chen is an award-winning UK-based Chinese artist, performance director, producer, and founder of The Great Her, amplifying East Asian women’s voices through performance and visual art. She is the first Chinese artist to receive the Creative Edinburgh Award (2024) and the first Chinese female artist to be recognised as a Being Edinburgh Award finalist (2026) from Edinburgh University. She was also a finalist for the UN Women UK Outstanding Grassroots Campaigner Award (2025), and her playwriting has been recognised through two National Theatre of Scotland shortlists.

Jiayi’s work has been presented at venues and festivals across the UK, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh Printmakers, King’s College London, and Central Saint Martins. Alongside her artistic practice, she is committed to supporting the recognition of outstanding artists and creative excellence across the UK’s arts sector.