The Chair: Craft Victoria exhibition opens soon

Brodie Neill, Cowrie Chair, plywood faced with ebonised ash. Image courtesy the maker and via Craft Victoria

More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subject to the wildest experimentations and ideas by makers, craftspeople, engineers and designers. The most used piece of furniture, it is lauded for its honest functionality and celebrated for its many shapes and forms. The Chair presents 24 chairs from 31 contemporary makers. The exhibition is the first in a series presented by Craft Victoria honouring iconic objects of functional craft and design with a material driven approach.

The chair is an ever-evolving indicator of trend, design, and application of material and technology. Obsessed over by creative practitioners, it is one of the ultimate design challenges.

If the home is our castle, then the chair is our throne.

The Chair features the work of:

Anna Varendorff, Ash Allen, Ashley Eriksmoen, Bern Chandley, Bonhula Yunupingu & Damien Wright, Brodie Neill, Brud Studia, Cordon Salon, Dean Norton, Duncan Young & Noah Hartley, Georgia Weitenberg, Isabel Avendano-Hazbun, James Lemon, Jess Humpston, Jill Stevenson, Johnny Nargoodah & Trent Jansen, Nicole Lawrence & Thomas Coward, Liam Mugavin, Marta Figueiredo, Michael Gittings, Sam Tomkins, Iain [Max] Maxwell & Ben Ennis-Butler (MPavilion 2022 chair), Trent Jansen for Broached Monsters by Broached Commissions, Two Lines Studio, Zachary Frankel.

The Chair is on view from 10 September – 19 November 2022 and is later presented as part of Craft Contemporary 2022 in October. See the exhibition at Craft, Watson Place (off Flinders Lane), Naarm/Melbourne.