Humanzee

Overview

Visual artist Lisa Roet has a long-running history with using images of primates to comment on environmental issues, genetic discoveries and the evolving place of humanity within nature. This time, Roet has created jewellery that is both beautiful and unusual to explore these themes in Humanzee.

Roet’s work has a very scientific feel to it, so it’s no surprise she has worked with everyone from zoologists to taxonomists for her art. Some of the pieces from the exhibition include silver bracelets made from caste gorilla skin, and a gibbon hand that wraps itself around the arm or wrist of the wearer like it was clinging to a tree branch.

Materials used to create the jewellery include gold, silver, bronze, bone carved and caste. If jewellery as art is your jam, Pieces of Eight Gallery is also running the exhibition Compact Museum Gacha-Gacha, which features small-scale objects and jewellery by Nicholas Bastin.