The art installation comes to Ballarat after being featured on buildings in Hong Kong, Singapore and Edinburgh.
Lisa Roet created the public art installation in 2016, in the year of the monkeyThe golden installation is part of an art series imitating endangered monkeys
Roet first created the inflatable art installation for Melbourne Town Hall in 2016, during the Chinese Zodiac year of the monkey, continuing her 30 years of art-practice focused on primates. "They are touring to global locations to talk about biodiversity loss and encroaching urbanisation and the relationship between nature and humans and our urbanisations models," Roet said.
The full inflated size is nine by six metres, but packs down to a metre squared size box for transporting.Roet said the prominence of the monkey triggered community conversations.
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