Claire is an ACS award winning DOP who was named one of IF Magazines Rising Stars of 2025.
With extensive experience in the camera department, Claire has worked with some of Australia’s most prolific filmmakers, including shooting additional camera and second unit on Warwick Thornton’s THE NEW BOY, and THE ROYAL HOTEL by Kitty Green. Claire is continuing her relationship with Warwick Thornton in 2025 by working as first assistant camera on his latest feature WOLFRAM. Claire shot the performance-based video work, WITNESS for artist, Ida Sophia, which was awarded the Ramsey Art Prize by the Art Gallery of South Australia, and will be featured in the Dark Mofo 2025 programme.
In 2024 she won ACS Gold and the Milton Ingerson Award for the short film FINDING JIA, directed by Alice Yang. In the same year the ACS awarded her The Drew Llewelyn Camerimage Scholarship, which saw her travel to Poland for Cameraimage 2024. Claire received the National John Leake OAM ACS Emerging Cinematographer Award from the ACS in 2019. Following this Claire was supported by Screen Australia as part of the Enterprise People Initiative, where she travelled to Los Angeles and attended the American Society of Cinematographers Masterclass. She was also awarded the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2015 South Australian Screen Awards.
In 2018 Claire produced and shot the web-series THE BIG NOTHING screening at festivals such as Seattle International Film Festival, Series Fest Colorado, Seoul Web-fest, and Adelaide Film Festival, garnering Claire a Silver ACS award for her work.
