The Hairy Wild Man From Botany Bay Chaise Lounge is a hybrid object, taking influence from native Australian and European creatures, including the Tussock Lymantriiddae – a spiky native Australian caterpillar, and the Icelandic sheep – the European animal with the longest fur. This object employs materials that were part of the common European vernacular during the time that the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay was imagined.

Long before the First Fleet of convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, a new mythical Australian creature arose from the frenzy of stories of the new continent, this creature was known as the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay. Described as a savage giant of 9 feet tall, with a broad face, deathly eyes and covered in long, but sparse wiry hair, the Hairy Wild Man from Botany Bay surely occupied the thoughts of new British arrivals as they surveyed the bush of Botany Bay, or tried to sleep on their first night in the new colony.