24th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Date: June 6 - 12, 2025
Hosted by: Japan International Art Exchange Committee, chair Katsu Shimmin
Supported by: Shimmin Garou
Principal Exhibition Sponsors: Royal Thai Embassy, Japan-China Association
Australian Artistic Advisors: Peteris and Jillian Ciemitis
Links:
Australian Embassy, Tokyo: https://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyo/events.html
Jordan Andreotta (WA)
Jillian Ciemitis (WA)
Peteris Ciemitis (WA)
Helen Forbes (WA)
Fahn (James Gardiner) (NSW)
Sarah McBride (WA)
Jane Pestell-Litten (NZ)
Judy Rogers (WA)
Allan Rose (NSW)
Ralph Stanton (NSW)
Monique Tippett (WA)
Jana Vodesil-Baruffi (WA)
Geoffrey Wake (WA)
Emily Wilde (WA)
The artists profiles and artworks are provided on the following pages.
The Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition is an annual invitation-only art and cultural exchange exhibition that has taken place in Japan since 2000. In 2025, the Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition Committee hosts the Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition featuring almost 350 artworks from over 20 countries at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Fourteen Australasian artists are representing Australian and New Zealand in the 2025 exhibition:
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Jordan Andreotta
Jordan Andreotta is an award-winning Perth based artist and teacher of the Visual Arts, specialising in a range of mediums including drawing, painting, digital and mural art. His artistic practice revolves around the exploration of hidden meanings through the delicate interplay of objects and fabric. Jordan is captivated by the potential of drapery to reveal and conceal, to evoke a sense of mystery and introspection. By enshrouding everyday objects in flowing folds of fabric, Jordan invites viewers to delve beyond the surface and embark on a visual journey of discovery. The drape acts as a metaphorical veil, hinting at the hidden narratives and emotions that lie beneath the tangible world. Through the meticulous rendering of intricate folds, shadows, and textures, Jordan strives to capture the essence of these concealed meanings. Each brushstroke serves as a conduit for the intangible, bringing to life the ethereal qualities that reside within the objects.
https://www.jordanandreottaart.com
Instagram @jordanandreottaart
Illuminated Chair
Oil Paint on Board 50cm x 50cm
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Jillian Ciemitis
Jillian Ciemitis is a West Australian based artist whose work focuses on photography and printmaking, examining issues of identity and place.
Holding a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts in Visual Arts and Photomedia (Edith Cowan University), Jillian is a multi-award winning artist, notably receiving the WA Print Media Award (2012) and twice finalist in the prestigious National FAC Print Award.
Her work examines the condition of the individual through both documented and invented narratives, which she extends further by transposition on her environmental and urban imagery. Jillian’s pieces are imbued with an atmosphere and intensity, which is applied to a range of subject matter, the banal, the incidental and the secret.
Jillian’s International projects include the 2017 Venice Biennale Collateral Program, the 18th Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, the G20 Summit International Art Exhibition in Hangzhou, China, and the Southern Vermont Art Center, USA.
Recent International exhibitions include 23rd Tokyo International Art Exchange Exhibition and Qingdao Master Artists Invitational Exhibition.
Her artwork is included in various permanent collections in both Australia and overseas, from Edith Cowan University’s art collection, Australia to Qianjang International Art Museum, China and various others.
Instagram @jillianciemitis
Whispering Branches
Spreen print 45cm x 60cm
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Peteris Ciemitis
Peteris (Peter) Ciemitis is an Australian artist acknowledged for portraiture and his interpretations of landscape and place. His work has been described as contemporary expressionism, “that become(s) a landscape of humanity rather than an objective portrait or individual study” (Robyn Archer, 2010)
His works are held in major collections, from the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the Hangzhou Qianjiang International Art Museum, China, the National Museum of Art in Latvia, and numerous public and private collections in Australia.
He has featured in Australia’s national portraiture prizes. He was winner of the Lester Prize for Portraiture in 2010, and has been a multi-finalist in the coveted Archibald Prize.
Peteris has participated in major International Art Biennales including the Qingdao Biennale (2014), the collateral program of the Venice Biennale (2017) and the 18th Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka (2018). He has featured in the “Latviešu Māksla Trimdā” exhibition in the National Museum of Art in Latvia (2013), in five International Art Exchange exhibitions in Tokyo, and represented Australia in the and the International Shiva Festival in India (2018).
Recent International exhibitions include 23rd Tokyo International Art Exchange Exhibition and Qingdao Master Artists Invitational Exhibition.
He is Artistic Advisor to the Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition Committee, and has served as co-Chair of the City of Perth Cultural Advisory Committee, Chair of the Community Arts Network of Western Australia, and panel member of the Arts WA Arts Investment Panel.
In Australia, he is represented by the prestigious Linton and Kay Galleries.
Instagram @peteris_ciemitis_art
Somewhere Nowhere
Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 66cm
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Helen Forbes
Helen completed a Diploma of Fine Art at Perth Technical College in 1965 and has worked as a professional artist since that time. She paints in a studio at PS Studios in Fremantle.
Helen has had 10 solo shows, numerous shared & group shows. She won the Cossack Contemporary Art Award in 2008 and the Abstract Art Award in 2005.
The circle frequently appears in her work representing the moon but also expresses wholeness and a constant state of being. She uses a mix of industrial, recycled media such as jute, recycled tin.
Her work is included in many private collections in Europe, Australia and USA. Corporate collections include Aarchon WA, Horizon Power, Dampier Port Authority & Rockmans Regency Hotel in Melbourne.
In 2024 she participated in the 23rd International Art Exchange at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Qingdao Art Academy Exchange in China
Instagram @helenforbesartist
The Moon and Me and a Thousand Ideas
Giclee print, 77 x 77 cm
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Fahn (James Gardiner)
My art focuses on multi-perspectival perception and consciousness. Imbibing artworks with ambiguity - portrait or landscape, elevation or plan, present or future. The intention is to produce an enigmatic ‘conscious landscape’.
Fahn (James Bruce Gardiner) 1973, is a Sydney based artist, with a strong focus in ambiguity, perception and digital fabrication. Formerly an award-winning Architect and inventor (13 patents), his achievements include the world’s first 3D printed reef and the development of the FreeFAB Wax system used for the Elizabeth line, London Underground project. James former careers have been recognized with numerous awards, scholarships and press coverage including National Geographic, New Scientist and the Economist.
James dedicated himself full time to his art practice in 2018, after many years of exploration. James continues to engage with technologies in novel ways. Gardiner completed an artist residency at UNSW Art & Design, where he pursued the design and fabrication of a large 3D printed ‘Shard’ sculpture for Sculpture by the Sea in 2018. James has since pioneered new methods of integrating digital machine cutting with traditional drawing and painting techniques within the postgraduate Master of Fine Arts program at the National Art School, Sydney in 2024. In line with James former career as an inventor, James works across multiple mediums and materials and is constantly experimenting and pushing his work into new territory.
Fahn (James Gardiner) is represented by Art Atrium and Art Artium 48 Galleries in Australia
Instagram @fahnjim
Paper Sentience PaSe24-39
Giclee print on cotton rag 95 x 79cm
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Sarah McBride
Sarah McBride is a practicing artist based in Perth, WA. She is primarily recognised as a portrait artist who focuses on challenging outdated social norms and stereotypes through her artworks.
She has been a finalist in Australian national portraiture prizes such as the Doug Moran and Shirley Hannan. Most recently she became a finalist in the prestigious Collie Art Prize. Her works are in numerous private collections in Australia and Europe.
Sarah has contributed to various group exhibitions including Southwest Art Now and had her solo exhibition Restoration at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. Her solo creative works incorporated animals as the main subject matter within surreal narratives that highlighted environmental and social issues.
Sarah is currently the chair of the WA Portrait Artists; an association who host group exhibitions and events to showcase the diversity of interpretation that make up the genre.
Instagram @sarahmcbrideart
Shiny
Oil on linen 50 x 40cm
Shiny 2
Oil on linen 45 x 75cm
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Jane Pestell-Litten
Perth-born Jane Pestell-Litten has spent the last two decades embracing a successful career as a trans-Tasman painter based in Queenstown, New Zealand. She is a contemporary predominantly figurative and portrait artist working primarily in oils and painting in the style of the Photorealist movement. With an eye for detail she is passionate about capturing the brilliance of light and the individuality of the figure in her works.
Jane’s ability to strike a fine balance between depicting the actuality of what the eye can see, whilst also leaving space for subject ambiguity to enable individual interpretation, sees her work in high demand.
Her work has featured in several leading Australian and International Portrait Awards multi-finalisting in the Black Swan (Lester), Portia Geach Portrait Prize, Doug Moran Portrait Prize and American Society of Portrait Awards. Variety of public collections such as the Australian Film and Television Association, Government House (WA), Royal Thai Consulate as well as notable private collections nationally and internationally.
Recent International exhibitions include 23rd Tokyo International Art Exchange Exhibition and Qingdao Master Artists Invitational Exhibition
Jane works almost exclusively full-time as a commissioned artist.
Instagram @pestelllitten
Same As It Ever Was
Oil on Linen 95cm x 35cm
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Judy Rogers
Hungarian-born and science-trained, Judy Rogers moved to Western Australia in 1995. Rogers’ work spans intricate mixed media creations and large-scale public sculptures. Her botanical works are surveys of her own relationship to Australia. She wants to heighten public awareness about the current condition of life and environmental distress.
Her pieces are featured in prestigious international public and private collections. Just to mention a few: Rio Tinto, CETYS University Mexico, Hangzhou Qianjiang International Art Museum China, Edith Cowan University and Royal Perth Hospital.
With an impressive portfolio, Rogers has held twenty-four solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as solo shows in Budapest (2016) and St. Petersburg (2018). In 2024, she participated in the 21st AAmA International Art Exhibition and 11 International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. Notably, in 2019, she was part of the Synergia International Painting Festival at CETYS University in Mexico. Rogers also represented Australia in the 18th Asian Arts Biennale in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2018) and at the G20 Art Agenda in Hangzhou, China (2016).
She is also a highly sought after art teacher and curator.
Instagram @judyrogers5541
Wild Rose
acrylic and dry pigments on board
80 x 80cm (four panels 40 x 40cm)
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Alan Rose
Originally an engineer, I graduated from the National Art School in Sydney in 2009, majoring in sculpture. I have held ten solo shows and have appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including outdoor public events such as Sculpture by the Sea and Vivid Light.
My practice is concerned with repetitive geometric shapes, and with how they interact with various light sources, both static and kinetic. The works are intended to occupy a space between the random and the highly ordered, and thereby to induce a sense of confusion for the viewer. .
My artwork picks up the threads of minimalism, kinetic art and optical art from the 60s, when art became less about the emotional state of the artist than the mental state of the viewer. In a sense they link with Sol le Witt’s conceptualism, where the “ planning and decision-making are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair”. The intuitive, creative process is moved one step backwards, but never dispensed with.
Instagram @alanrose100
Nebula
Acrylic 72 x 72 x 5cm
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Ralph Stanton
Ralph Stanton is an Australian abstract painter. He trained as an architect and practised in Perth, Western Australia. He now lives and works in Sydney. He has painted and exhibited regularly since 1996.
His work is primarily about light. It reflects and captures a feeling that the light is ephemeral, appearing indirectly in luminous patterns of varying depth playing on the surface. The painting becomes like a piece of jewellery, beautiful in itself, without any need for narrative.
“Ralph Stanton’s canvases also celebrate paint. He lays down rich textures that explore the physicality of the medium. His works call to the viewer from a distance while close inspection rewards us with glimpses of underlying activity just beneath the surface, the memory of another idea perhaps. It is the process of painting, the layering of colour invite tactile inspection; but when we move closer we don’t touch, instead we seem to fall into infinity.”*
Certificate of Merit, 23rd International Exchange Exhibition, Tokyo 2024,
Finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Award 2022 ;
Articles in Artist Profile (online edition) 2024, Almanac magazine September 2021 and in Art Edit Magazine January 2020 and 2019 – Spring edition.
Collections: King Edward Hospital, Claremont Medical Centre and Maurice Zeffert Home;
Private collections: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, London, Nelson NZ, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong and Zurich.
*“Art Seen In Western Australia” by Judith McGrath
Instagram @ralphstanton1
“Blue Fire, Red Fire”
Giglee print on art paper 100 x 80cm
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Monique Tippett
Monique Tippett, based in Dwellingup, Western Australia, is a multi-award-winning artist and curator specializing in wood sculptures and 3D wall installations. With over 22 years of experience, her work reflects a deep connection to the natural environment of southwest WA, emphasizing its scale, light, texture, and fragility in the face of human impact.
Monique’s works are featured in prominent collections, including WA Parliament House, Edith Cowan University, Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, St John of God Hospital and Perth’s New Children’s Hospital.
She was the West Australian Parliamentary Artist in Residence in 2019, creating a public art commission for Parliament House, and received the Western Australian Regional Artist Fellowship Grant in 2020, which enabled four solo exhibitions and a retrospective exhibition of her works from 2009 to 2022 alongside pieces from the late Howard Taylor in the WA State Collection.
In 2021, Monique played a prominent role as one of the leading artists in the inaugural Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, showcasing her diverse artistic contributions, alongside many international and WA artists. Between 2019-2023, Monique has played a pivotal role as an artist, mentor, and curator for the “Alternative Archive Project”, which included exhibitions at Lost Eden Creative and John Curtin University Gallery.
In 2018, Monique founded Lost Eden Creative, an Artist Run Initiative in Dwellingup, supporting local and national artists.
Instagram @moniquetippettartist
Benten
Marri timber veneer. inks, balga tree resin, lacquer and gold leaf 83 x 60cm
Kagutsuchi
Marri timber veneer, ink, balga tree resin, lacquer, gold leaf 61 x 91cm
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Jana Vodesil-Baruffi
I am a WA-based fine artist and art educator schooled in the best traditions of Europe. My realistic portraits, landscapes and fantastic realism works have won prestigious state and national competitions and are sold both nationally and abroad.
My work can be divided into two categories: Portraits and Landscapes
I am a member of WA portrait artists and a contributor to The Archibald and Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, as well as The Lester Prize of which I was a winner in 2017, seven-time finalist and winner of the People's Choice prize. In 2020 I was a finalist at Darling Prize with a portrait of Matt Ottley exhibited at National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
In 2022 two of my portraits won1st and 2nd prize at American Art Awards. I am also a two time winner of Melville Art Awards and winner of Canning Art Awards. I had over 20 solo exhibitions and been part of countless group shows. In 2024 I participated in the 23rd Japan International Art Exchange exhibition in Tokyo. My art is exhibited in my studio-gallery Metamorphosis Art Gallery.
Instagram @jana_vb_art
Katarina
Oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm
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Geoffrey Wake
Geoffrey Wake is a leading Western Australian artist who has made significant contribution to the local and national arts scene.
Born in Perth in 1944, Wake completed a Diploma in Painting in his early career, he held three solo exhibitions at the iconic Skinner Galleries (1971,73 and 75. He has also won a prestigious six month residency at the Cite’ Internationale des Arts in Paris, awarded by the Power Institute.
He has held 15 solo exhibitions, 10 shared exhibitions and has participated in 30 Group shows in Perth and the eastern states. He has held previous solo exhibitions at PS Art Space in 2023 and 2024. He has worked as a Tafe lecturer and founded a business running art tours locally and overseas.
Wake’s work is represented in collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Curtin University, City of Fremantle, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Skinner Collection, Horn Collection, Carnegie Collection, and many other institutional and private collections locally and interstate.
He has won a number of prizes and awards – in 2007 he was awarded the Manjar Corporate Art Award and was a category winner in the Cossack Art Prize in the same year. There have been numerous major corporate commissions –Barclays Bank, National Bank, BHP, Woodside Offshore Petroleum, Qantas, Multiplex, Coles Myer and the Duxton Hotel. In 2024 Wake exhibited at the 23rd Tokyo International Art Exchange exhibition in Japan with artists from Austalia and NZ .
In 2024 he exhibited at the Qingdao International Master Artists Invitational Exhibition with artists from Australia and NZ. Wake has been an active member of PS Art Space in Fremantle since 1994.
Instagram @geoff_wake
Dog Barking at the Moon (Homage to Miro)
Giclee Print 80 x 90cm
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Emily Wilde
Emily Wilde is an Australian Artist with an interest in materials, sound, space and the sensory. As an Abstract Painter, Emily works with varying materials including silk, cloth, canvas and concrete, often utilising writing, text, grid, and a monochromatic palette. She often work at scale on canvas ; and is currently exploring ideas on coding, process and abstraction.
Emily has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, major in Painting. Her thesis explored a neuro-aesthetic response to art and process driven painting. Her background as an Architect informs her practice and language with materials, space, sound, light and the sensory.
Emily’s Masters Research in Architecture at the University of Melbourne specialised in silica-activated geopolymer concretes: material performance and CO2 Emissions analyses; with the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering & Department of Architecture. Emily graduated with first class honours.
Emily has geared her Artistic endeavour around building the Resonosphere project – a sound space (sensory space) for humanity; and the search for how Art can deepen our sensory and meditative experience as human beings. Her silks, spheres and paintings are engaged with the body and an interest in a heightened experience for people through sound, light, materials and space. In 2024 Emily exhibited in the Nakhon Sawan International Arts Exhibition in Thailand and the Qingdao International Master Artists Exhibition. Emily was a finalist with the Maker & Smith Film Festival exhibited in South Korea – for a short film she created on her painting and silks works, which explored ideas on loss, death and finding renewal.
Instagram @emwildeartist
The Beautiful Abyss
Original Silk Cloth Work 112 x 120cm