Sian Redgrave: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Sian Redgrave won her season of The Great Australian Bake Off.

When The Great Australian Bake Off was revived on LifeStyle Food in 2015 after two years off air, the first champion of the new era was Sian Redgrave, a 23-year-old from Perth with a fashion styling background. She sealed the win in the December 2015 finale by impressing judges Maggie Beer and Matt Moran with an extravagant croquembouche perched on a chocolate mud cake, exactly the kind of design-led showstopper that hinted at where her career would go next.

Her season carried extra weight for the franchise. The 2013 original had been cancelled after one run on the Nine Network, so the ten-episode 2015 revival, with comedians Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle hosting, was effectively a second pilot for the whole Australian show. Redgrave beat runners-up Jasmin Hartley and Suzy Stefanidis in a finale that proved the format had found its home, and the Beer and Moran era she launched ran for five seasons.

Design first, baking second, then both at once

Redgrave came to the show with a Bachelor of Design from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and a working life in fashion styling. She has said the Bake Off experience gave her the clarity that she had to be part of the food industry, and that everything she had learned studying design applied directly to cooking. Rather than opening a cake shop, she took the more unusual route: turning food itself into her design medium.

A career as a food stylist

In the decade since her win, Redgrave has built a career as a food stylist, recipe developer, and all-round maker of edible things, one of the more distinctive post-show paths of any champion in our Great Australian Bake Off winners roundup. Her work sits at the intersection of food, art, and fashion: styling shoots and developing recipes for brands and publications, with lifestyle labels featuring her recipe collaborations and interiors press touring her art-filled Sydney terrace. She has become, in effect, the person magazines call when food needs to look like art.

She is also represented for bookings and appearances, which tells you her profile within the Australian food and creative scene has stayed current rather than fading with the season that made her.

Where things stand now

Redgrave today is based on Australia's east coast and works across styling, recipe development, and creative projects, maintaining an active public presence through her professional work and social channels. She has not gone the television-personality or cookbook-empire route, at least not yet; her byline lives in shoots and collaborations rather than on spines. Day to day details beyond that are not extensively documented, so we will stick to what her published work shows.

The takeaway for fans

Most Bake Off winners either go professional in pastry or return to normal life. Redgrave found the third door: she made a career out of the way food looks and feels, which, if you rewatch her croquembouche finale, was the plan hiding in plain sight all along.