LISA ROET

The sculptures cast in bronze with the hands plated in 24 karat gold are both of the earth and ethereal. Alongside these life-like sculptures Roet’s photographic series Spirited Away transcends into another world where white light is paramount and alluring. Roet comments: “Having spent many hours watching and rewatching the films of Japanese animator/director Hayao Miyazaki, such as Spirited Away, the feelings generated by these films, the essence of the forbidden, the foreboding, and the enlightened are something I found through these photographs taken at The Hot Springs of Yamanochi. I have aspired to create a state of the Liminal in all these works; a place which is in-between. In-between doing, in-between thoughts, in-between states of being. The Liminal is the tying together of thought and experience where one sense of identity dissolves bringing about a sense of disorientation and eventually new perspectives.”

Lisa Roet’s continuing exploration into primates, their behaviours, and their relationship to the human race has attracted global attention, with many significant awards won and exhibitions throughout Australasia and the world. Most recently in October 2016, to coincide with the Year of the Monkey, Beijing Design Week, and China’s Golden Week, Roet held a solo exhibition at The Opposite House Hotel, Beijing where a 10 metre tall inflatable ‘Golden Monkey’ was installed on the side of the building.