Some think baking is a science, but look no further than Georgia-Rose Fairman for proof that it’s also an art. The assistant to sculptor Phyllida Barlow fuses her art world experience with skills picked up in the prosthetics industry to create eerily realistic cakes resembling a chicken, a pig’s head, and more recently, human skin. Her work has appeared in Vogue, she’s been profiled by The New York Times, and she made a dead mouse cake for Munchies UK (not to be confused with deadmau5).
According to Munchies, Fairman began by baking a realistic roast chicken cake for a friend’s birthday party, which she had never done before. Now she’s elevating the medium made popular by shows like Cake Boss with uncanny confectionary. She can spend days on a single cake, ranging from the disembodied lips above to the still life ackes, sculptures of the nude human form, and the other fine art tropes peppering her Instagram feed. Check out some of her best posts below—and remember: these are all cakes.
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The cake that started it all:
See more of Georgia-Rose Fairman’s work here, and follow The Creators Project on Instagram to find your next favorite artist.
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