The role of the collectively made chair in the Jimmy Possum chairmaking tradition.
Journal: Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)
Year: 2017

The Jimmy Possum chairmaking tradition (1887–1955) is a unique Australian material cultural expression bound to the history, community, and landscape of Deloraine, Tasmania, the location that this studio research project was undertaken. While the tradition’s chairs are in major Australian and international public institutional collections, little is known about the tradition’s chairmakers or its mysterious namesake beyond the limited scope of the last scholarly enquiry conducted by Honours stude