Rebecca Shawyer

Rebecca Shawyer’s sculptures have been described as ethereal, intricately decorated carnival imagery, slightly unnerving, beguiling, grotesquely eerily beautiful, theatrical and intense. No two are ever the same.
For 13 intense years Shawyer expressed her creativity through Patisserie.
The majority of this was in Europe where in 1995 she won the prestigious British Dessert of the Year, and was Pastry Chef on Tour for Neil Diamond and Tina Turner.
After moving to Northern Italy, she became Prima Pasticcera at Italy’s first three star Michelin; the restaurant of renowned Italian chef Gvaltiero Marchesi- founder of Modern Italian Cuisine. Rebecca was also the first woman to work for World Champion Pastry Chef Iginio Massari.

In 2002 Shawyer returned to New Zealand to explore a more permanent medium for her creativity.

Approaching clay with the same obsessive dedication that saw her succeed in Patisserie, her unique sculptures are in demand with a waiting list for commissions.

Her works are in collections both in New Zealand and abroad. For safe transportation she now constructs them with detachable body parts.