Welfe Bowyer is an artist based in Mahurangi East, who graduated from the Victoria School of Architecture in Wellington, New Zealand in 2005. He has always been interested in designing three-dimensional forms, irrespective of scale.

An award-winning student (Dulux Architecture & Design Award 2004) and a finalist for the Mari Funaki Award 2018 with his series '2C'/Twice Cast, he simultaneously began experimenting with jewellery design while working in Architecture. This allowed him the perfect medium with which to conceptualise, experiment and create on a different scale.

Predominantly self-taught, in combination with skills courses at Melbourne Polytechnic, Bowyer's jewellery has its emphasis on form and structure, creating hand made textures with common alloys of bronze, silver and gold and combining them in unique ways. He often utilises found objects and plays off the strengths of one material over another to create a language that speaks of time, erosion, memory and how pieces might evolve in the future as they are worn.