The Lanternist is the love child of Melbourne based illustrator/designer Tyson Savanah and partner Evie Wittingslow. Born from a desire to enhance the natural beauty of their family wetlands and gardens in the evenings, and growing to include over 80 individual lanterns. The Lanternist was created through Tyson and Evies' constituent skill set of Industrial design, illustration, styling and production. The Lanternist blends traditional lantern design, sculpture and illustration to create luminous pieces of art.
The Lanternist is a project started with my partner Evie (Mother Marker)
We design and manufacture lantern sculptures.
Lantasia Lights was an exhibition by The Lanternist held at Boneo Maze over 3 consecutive Summer holidays. The mazes, gardens and wetlands were illuminated by over 50 lantern sculptures.
We hire the lanterns out to events and festivals and were delighted to be able to show our works at events such as White Night (Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong and Bendigo), Rainbow Serpent Festival and at Bunjilaka Cultural Centre in Melbourne Museum for Yirramboi Festival.
A look at some behind he scenes action leading up to rural city White Night events last year.
This character was inspired by a local Indigneous Dreamtime story, Tiddalik the Frog.