About us

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.
The third trustee, Chelsea Yang Zhou, is a linguist as well as a cultural consultant and conference interpreter who works with cultural organisations in China and Europe.
Jim Orr is the Treasurer of Asian Art Fund Scotland. He’s a professional accountant who has worked in charity administration on and off for 25 years. He also helps review shows.
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.
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.

Asian Art Fund Scotland is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Charity number: SC049548