Lisa Roet (born 1967) is an Australian artist who lives and works in

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

. She studied at the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

. In 2005 she received the McClelland Sculpture Prize. The sculpture, ''White Ape'', is now part of the collection of the

McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery (stylised as McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery) is an Australian sculpture park and gallery located in Langwarrin (near Frankston) in Melbourne, Victoria. It displays more than 100 large-scale works by prom ...

. Roet is interested in the relationship between humans and primates and explores this relationship through her

bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...

s, charcoal drawings, film and photography. She has travelled to remote areas in

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

for field observations of apes in forests in addition to involving herself in a range of residencies with research centres and major international zoos. Roet's work is discussed in Alexie Glass-Kantor's book on the artist, ''Lisa Roet : uncommon observations'', and catalogued by Karen Woodbury in, ''You're so vain : five contemporary sculptors Michael Doolan, Kate Ellis, Lily Hibberd, Lisa Roet, Tim Silver / exhibition concept''. In 2009 Roet created the film ''Weeping Forest'' which documents logging in Borneo. Roet created an inflatable sculpture of a

Golden snub-nosed monkey The golden snub-nosed monkey (''Rhinopithecus roxellana'') is an Old World monkey in the subfamily Colobinae. It is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous forests of central and Southwest China. They inhabit these mountainous forests ...

. Versions of this sculpture have been exhibited at

Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne Town Hall, often referred to as simply Town Hall, is the administrative seat of the local municipality of the City of Melbourne and the primary offices of the Lord Mayor and city councillors of Melbourne. Located on the northeast co ...

in Australia,

Inverleith House Inverleith House is a historic house, now within the Royal Botanic Garden, in the suburb of Inverleith, in Edinburgh, Scotland. History Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for James Rocheid in 1774. In about 182 ...

in Edinburgh, the Opposite House hotel in Beijing, the Temple House in Chengdu, and the H-Code building in Hong Kong.

Gallery

File:White Ape at McClelland sculpture park, Frankston, Victoria.jpg, Roet's "White Ape" sculpture, on display in the

. File:Golden monkey on Inverleith House, Edinburgh by artist Lisa Roet 01.jpg, Roet's Golden Monkey installation on

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

, Scotland., alt=Roet's Golden Monkey installation on Inverleith House in Edinburgh, Scotland. File:King's Hall, Edinburgh in August 2023, landscape.jpg, An inflatable

gibbon Gibbons () are apes in the family Hylobatidae (). The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four extant genera and 20 species. Gibbons live in subtropical and tropical forests from eastern Bangladesh and Northeast Indi ...

sculpture by Roet, mounted on the King's Hall, Edinburgh as part of the 2023

Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featur ...

References

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Lisa Roet, Astro-Chimp

''Weeping Forest''
(video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Roet, Lisa 1967 births Living people 20th-century Australian sculptors 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists Artists from Melbourne RMIT University alumni 20th-century Australian women sculptors Women's Art Register artists