@sugarsugar_cakes

Instagram: @sugarsugar_cakes Facebook: www.facebook.com/sugarsugar.designercakes Website: www.sugarsugarcakes.com.au  

1. What's your story? Where are you from?

Just a lil' gal-next-door from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who moved solo to Australia with a backpack full of dreams. Pastry is my game, and cake is my language. I host an online cake decorating education hub called 'Sugar Sugar Cakes' which serves the sugar lovin' community by providing tutorials, blogs, videos, inspiration & a myriad of other resources. I love colour, handmade trinkets, Christmas carols, green juices & anything with ultra rich dairy in it. Mmmm...

2. Tell us about your aesthetic.

I love working with shameless splashes of colour, neons & metallics. One of my aims is to create works that aren't typically found in the general "cakesphere", drawing inspiration from fashion, wall art, illustrations, ceramics & textiles.

3. What is your favourite medium and why?

My absolutely favourite decorating method is painting on cakes, which I now realise traces back to when I briefly studied painting after high school. Edible paint, dusts & gels are my go-to mediums.

4. What is your artistic process like?

I'll frequently chance upon captivating graphics or images (usually on Instagram) and I'll snap this and store it in my ever-expanding compendium of "inspo pics". I also get a lot of ideas at night just before I fall asleep and so I'll jot it down quickly just before nodding off. So, when it's time to begin a new creative project I'll revisit these library of ideas and start creating a cake/dessert concept based on one of the ideas that resound with me in that particular season. Cake creation takes a couple of days and I usually do so with a cuppa tea, music & a gurgling bouncy baby in the background.

5. Who and/or what inspires your work?

I love being inspired by local artists. Anyone with a kinky & colourful art expression gets my creative juices flowing. Some of my favs include Tiff Manuel, Corinne Melanie & Leah Grant.

6. What role does art play in your life? How does it change the way you view the world?

Art is full-blown expression & therapy for me. It's an extremely calming & joyful process that I wish I had more hours in the day for.

7. Where did you study?

I studied French pastry arts in Le Cordon Bleu Sydney & Business in UniSA.

8. Where do you see yourself in five years?

Fingers crossed, travelling around the globe serving the global cake art community in some shape & form.

9. What about in ten?

Probably travelling around the globe still (I hope) but this time, serving communities in a larger, greater way. I'd love to be a part of a social enterprise which helps impoverished communities through a recognised brand.

10. What do you hope to achieve with your art?

As cheesy baloney as this sounds, I honestly hope that I can inspire others to pursue their passions and art expression. I know there are so many people out there sitting behind their computer screens, or elbow deep in diapers who have so many incredible & creative ideas - people who maybe due to circumstance, fear or doubt haven't stepped out to explore their own hidden creative genius. I hope that I can somehow invite them on a journey with me so they can find joy in realising their own creative deposit.

11. Now, tell us a little more about you as a person: what is your favourite food?

I looooove Malaysian & Italian food. Yum yum...and I have to have a cuppa tea & cake at least once a day.

12. Favourite book?

The Bible, its solid.

13. Favourite genre of music?

Jazz, acapella, African gospel .

14. What are your hobbies?

Baking (but of course), making jewellery, belting out ballads in the shower, globe trekking.

15. If you weren't an artist, what would you be?

A musical theatre performer. Honest to goodness, It was either pastry arts or theatre arts for me.