Lisa Roet

{{Short description|Australian artist (born 1967)}}

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Lisa Roet (born 1967){{cite web |title=Lisa Roet |url=http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/lisa_roet |website=OzArts |access-date=6 September 2021}} is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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.{{cite web |title=Lisa Roet wins $100,000 McClelland Sculpture Prize |url=http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=3885 |website=State of the Arts |access-date=6 September 2021 |date=29 September 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090929232418/http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=3885|archive-date = 29 September 2009}}

Roet is interested in the relationship between humans and primates and explores this relationship through her bronze sculptures, charcoal drawings, film and photography. She has travelled to remote areas in Borneo for field observations of apes in forests in addition to involving herself in a range of residencies with research centres and major international zoos.{{citation needed|date= September 2021}}

Roet's work is discussed in Alexie Glass-Kantor's book on the artist, Lisa Roet : uncommon observations,{{cite book |last1=Glass |first1=Alexie |title=Lisa Roet : uncommon observations |date=2004 |publisher=Craftsman House |isbn=0-9751965-9-6}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Woodbury |first1=Karen |title=You're so vain : five contemporary sculptors Michael Doolan, Kate Ellis, Lily Hibberd, Lisa Roet, Tim Silver |date=2005 |publisher=Karen Woodbury Gallery |location=Richmond, Vic. |isbn=0-9750429-2-0}}

In 2009 Roet created the film Weeping Forest which documents logging in Borneo.{{cite web |last1=O'Brien |first1=Kerrie |title=How we treat animals reflects us as a society, says artist Lisa Roet |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/how-we-treat-animals-reflects-us-as-a-society-says-artist-lisa-roet-20201123-p56h3a.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en |date=26 November 2020}}{{cite web |title=Lisa Roet Sustainability |url=https://www.craft.org.au/lisa-roet-sustainability |website=Craft Victoria |access-date=6 September 2021}}

Roet created an inflatable sculpture of a Golden snub-nosed monkey. Versions of this sculpture have been exhibited at Melbourne Town Hall in Australia,{{cite web |title=Lisa Roet's 'Golden Monkey' Collaboration Unveiled as Part of 'White Night Melbourne' |url=https://www.hugomichellgallery.com/news-exhibitions/lisa-roets-golden-monkey-unveiled-tonight-as-part-of-white-night-melbourne/?doing_wp_cron=1630892702.4255158901214599609375 |website=Hugo Michell Gallery |access-date=6 September 2021 |date=20 February 2016}} Inverleith House in Edinburgh,{{cite web |title=Giant Golden Monkey at Inverleith House |url=https://www.rbge.org.uk/news/articles/giant-golden-monkey-at-inverleith-house/ |website=Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |access-date=6 September 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Traynor|first=Sian|date=2020-11-04|title=Striking golden monkey climbs Botanics walls to warn locals of climate change|url=https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/striking-golden-monkey-climbs-walls-19220636|access-date=2021-04-13|website=edinburghlive|language=en}} the Opposite House hotel in Beijing,{{cite web |last1=Shaw |first1=Catherine |title=A chimp off the old block: artist Lisa Roet monkeys around in Beijing |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/lisa-roet-golden-sneezing-monkey-scales-the-opposite-house |website=Wallpaper |access-date=6 September 2021 |date=2 October 2016}} the Temple House in Chengdu,{{cite web |title=Asialink Arts 2016 Year in Review |url=http://wfly.co/k0Q5T |website=Asialink Arts |access-date=6 September 2021}} and the H-Code building in Hong Kong.{{cite web |title=Golden Monkey: A Creative Exploration to the Origin of Human Beings |url=https://www.hkdesigncentre.org/en/news/dmatters/entry/golden-monkey-a-creative-exploration-to-the-origin-of-human-beings/ |website=Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) |access-date=6 September 2021}}