Who looks at banksia nuts and sees a chair, or spies a terracotta pipe and sees a lamp?

Mark Lilly does.

Mark Lilly is a local designer/maker gaining national attention for his beautiful and innovative work. Self-taught, he launched his practice, Manner, as a ‘design diary’ to document his craft-centric experiments with form and function.

Mark finds inspiration in unusual places, using materials that include found objects and left-over timber. His Banksia Chair, a unique piece crafted from banksia seed pods, made its debut at Fremantle Design Week and was runner up in the inaugural Anibou Prize, a national award program celebrating emerging designers and ingenuity in Australian furniture design.

Join us at Vessel Contemporary in the Naval Store for an engaging exploration of Mark's creative journey. Mark will share the thinking and processes behind his evolving practice, and the common experience of 'imposter syndrome'!

Drinks will be available from the bar and Vessel Contemporary’s exhibition Regenerative Strategies by Gian Manik will be open for viewing.

Banksia Chair by Mark Lilly / Manner.