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

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. She studied at the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, scienc ...

. 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 promi ...

. 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 (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

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 Alexie Glass-Kantor (née Glass) is an Australian artist and gallery director. she is the Executive Director of Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney. Early life and education Alexie Glass was born in Sydney, New South Wales Glass-Kantor recei ...

'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 is the central city town hall of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and is a historic building in the state of Victoria since 1867. Located in the central business district on the northeast corner of the intersection between S ...

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

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Lisa Roet, Astro-Chimp

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