Lisa Roet – Going Ape

Menzies is thrilled to announce an upcoming survey exhibition of major works by internationally lauded sculptor Lisa Roet in our Melbourne gallery.

With the ape as her muse, Lisa Roet has won critical acclaim in Australia and internationally for her multidisciplinary practice spanning three decades, including sculpture, drawing and printmaking.

Roet’s work interrogates the relationship between humans and our simian relatives, prompting complex dialogues around human evolution and creationism, language and communication, and science and art. Her work poignantly highlights how we are inextricably linked to the ‘other’ primates, with whom we share over 98% of our DNA, amid the tangle of biology, nature and culture.