Lisa Roet
Apr 20 - May 12 2024
Lisa Roet
For over two decades Lisa Roet has won acclaim in Australia and internationally for her powerful investigations into the complex interface between humans and our simian relatives.Drawing inspiration from a myriad of sources including residencies at major international zoos, field studies of apes living in the forests of Borneo and most recently through her own heart surgery, Lisa’s multidisciplinary approach to her work has challenged, and continues to challenge, fundamental scientific and behavioural theories relating to human evolution and creationism, language and communication, science and art and the relationship between humans and ‘other’ primates. Notwithstanding the potentially political nature of her subject, Roet never indulges in heavy-handed dacticism. To the contrary, her art practice is infused with refreshing vigour, candour and an inescapable sense of mystery, poignantly highlighting how inextricably linked humans and primates are amid the messy uncertainty of biology, nature and culture.With the ape as her muse, Roet encourages us to reflect upon prevailing attitudes towards these relatives with whom we share in excess of 98% of our DNA, the lingering anxiety with our evolutionary past, our use of apes for scientific and entertainment purposes and the way in which we project onto apes our own fantasies and culture, while at the same time assuming they are somehow ‘inferior’ to us.Not surprisingly, Lisa’s explorations into the psychology, behaviour and the soul of simian-human relations have attracted an impressive number of art awards, including the prestigious: Geelong Gallery Acquisitive Print Award, Australia (2013), Deakin University Small Sculpture Award, Australia (2012), Fremantle Print Award, Australia (2011), McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park Sculpture Survey & Award, Australia (2005), Australian National Gallery National Sculpture Prize, Australia (2003).Since her first show at Querhause Gallery, Berlin in 1992, Lisa has
been represented by galleries in Australia, Belgium and the USA, has held over twenty-five solo exhibitions and has participated in more than fifty group exhibitions internationally and within Australia, including: Golden Monkey, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China (2016), Heart Beat, Adelaide Festival 2016, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia (2016), Lisa Roet/KITX Collaboration, Melbourne Fashion Week, Pieces Of Eight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2016), Golden Monkey White Night Festival, Melbourne, Australia (2016), Bound Communication and Stories of Love, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2015), When I Laugh, He Laughs With Me, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (2015), Australian Artists In Bali: 1930s to Now, McClelland Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria, Australia (2015), Monkey Grip, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, which toured various regional galleries throughout Victoria, Australia (2013-14), When I Laugh, He Laughs With Me, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2014), Chengdu Biennale, China, 2013, McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Mornington Peninsula, Australia (2014, 2005 & 2003), Den Hagg Sculptuur 2007/The Hague Sculpture 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands (2007), Satellite Project (12 Australian Artists), Shanghai Biennale, China (2006), Kiss of the Beast, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (2005), Lisa Roet: Finger of Suspicion, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Australia (2004).
Lisa has also featured several times in the publication titled Australian Art Collector’s ‘50 Most Collectible Artists’ (2001, 2003 and 2007) and is the subject of a comprehensive monograph by Alexie Glass titled Lisa Roet: Uncommon Observations (2004), that was published by Thames and Hudson. Lisa was also the feature of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary titled APELADY, which was produced by Klaus Toft in 2010.
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0417324 795
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$9,800
1. Gold Finger
Bronze 24 Karat gold Plated Edition 3/6
45 x 25 x 13cm
Edition 2/3 Lightbox
80cm x 80cm Brass Frame
$8,800
2. Spirited Away 2$35,000
3. Golden Monkey
Bronze 24 Karat gold Plated Edition 3/6
105 x 45 x 25cm
4. Spirited Away 4
Edition 3 of 6 inkjet on 350gsm
1000 x 1000mm (image size)/1150 x 1350mm (paper size)
Print $3,500
Framed $5,500
5. Spirited Away 3
Edition 3 of 6 inkjet on 350gsm
1000 x 1000mm (image size)/1150 x 1350mm (paper size)
Print $3,500
Framed $5,500
6. Spirited Away 1
Edition 3 of 6 inkjet on 350gsm
1000 x 1000mm (image size)/1150 x 1350mm (paper size)
Print $3,500
Framed $5,500
7. Spirited Away 2
Edition 3 of 6 inkjet on 350gsm
1000 x 1000mm (image size)/1150 x 1350mm (paper size)
Print $3,500
Framed $5,500
Communitas Bronze, red patina, gold plate. Edition 3 of 5
700 x 550 x 650mm
$26,500
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9. Skin Screens with God’s View
Bronze 24 Karat Gold Plated
47 x 31cm
$7,800
10. Skin Screens with Circle Views
Bronze 24 Karat Gold Plated
47 x 33cm
$7,500
11. Skin Screens with Flowers
Bronze 24 Karat Gold Plated
48 x 33cm
$7,800
12. High Nature
Edition 4/4 bronze, 24 carat gold plated
100 x 55 x 60 cm
$32,000
13. In the Between, 2017 Edition 1 of 3 bronze
1300 x 1300 x 1500mm
$125,000
62 x 60 x 55cm
Bronze. Edition 1/3. On plinth
$28,000 Not in exhibition but is available, comes with plinth
Snow Monkey (Small)
185 x 200 x 100cm
Monkey King Bronze single edition $98,000175
$88,000
Orangutan Foot
Bronze 3/6 edition
x 78 x 75cm
Lisa Roet C.V.
LISA ROETArtist www.lisaroet.com 1985-1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Roet’s striking art works created through a researched based practice explores human’s relationship with apes. Drawing on the influence of zoologists, language experts and others, Lisa works through drawing, sculpture, public art and jewellery design as her mediums. Roet is best known for her giant inflatable sculptures that cling to iconic architecture in metropolises around the world. From Beijing to London the presence of jungle creatures - gorillas, gibbons and chimpanzees - dramatises the dire encroachment of humans on the great apes’ pristine habitats. Environmental concerns are, however, only one facet to her conceptual practice. Aesthetically rich, diverse and complex, her work always returns to the same terrain – the great ape, human/animal relationships, the degradation of the Earth, species extinction and hope for the future. Roet has become a major voice of the last half-century in exploring how inextricably linked human and animal are in the age of the Anthropocene. “Using the animal to reflect the human, demystifies the human,” she says. “I’m interested in exploring that liminal state between the rational and the primal. In my work I’m always becoming the ape, or the ape is becoming me.”
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2024 G8 APE, Royal Geographical Society,London, 2023, Golden Monkey ,Ballarat Photo Biennale , Ballarat, Vic, Skywalker Gibbon , Edinburgh arts Festival, Edinburgh, UK 2022, Golden Monkey, Singapore, City of Singapore,2021 Biodiversity Hoarding, Collaboration Students La Salle Art Collage , Singapore/Singapore Art Week,2021-2020 Golden Monkey, RBG Edinburgh Gardens Public Art Program, Climate House ,2020, Brothers Keeper, Auckland Gow Langsford Gallery,2018 BODW Hong Kong Public Art Program, Golden Monkey, Hong Kong ,2018, Beijing Earth Hour, SKYWALKER, The Opposite House Beijing
,2017 White Light, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide,2017 White Light, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland ,2016 Golden Sneezing Snub Nosed Monkey, Chengdu, Australian Culture Festival ,2016 Beijing Design Week, Golden (Sneezing SnubNosed)Monkey, The Opposite House ,2016 Heart Beat, Adelaide Festival, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide ,2016 Golden Monkey, White Night Melbourne ,2015, Lisa Roet, LOVE portraits and other stories, Auckland/Auckland Art Week,2014 HEART, White Night Arts Festival Melbourne, Forum Theatre, Melb.,2013 Monkey Grip, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Benalla Regional Gallery Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Warrnambool Gallery ,2011 The Mark Of No Human Hand, Australian Print Workshop, Melb.,2009 In-Sight in collaboration with WWF Malaysia , The Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Group Exhibitions
2023, Ballarat Photo Biennale, 2018 My Monster:The Human Animal Hybrid, RMIT, Melb. Business of Design Week, Creative Victoria, Hong Kong, Das Capital. Frankfurt Art International, Frankfurt, Germany,Sculpture, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand archival past Den Hagge Sculptuur 2007/The Hague Sculpture 2007, The Hague, the Netherlands (2007); Satellite Project (12 Australian Artists), Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai China (2006); McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park (2005 and 2003); Kiss of the Beast, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2005); Instinct, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Melbourne (2004); Nature Machine Exhibition, Queensland Gallery of Art, Brisbane (2004); Helen Lemprier National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria (2003); National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (2003); National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003); and Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2001). Major Publications Ape Lady, ABC documentary, 2010. Producer, Klaus Toft. Uncommon Observations, author Alexi Glass, 2004, Thames and Hudson, IAMAPE, Prof Barbara Creed,Ray Edgar 2022