About

Born in Canberra to migrant parents from India and England, Claire was raised largely by her mother, a photographer and human rights lobbyist for Tibet. At the age of eight, she spent a year traveling through Europe and Africa in a caravan, visiting galleries and witnessing remarkable moments, including Salvador Dalí’s funeral. In her teens, a formative year in India deepened her connection to her father’s heritage. Art, activism, and travel played a greater role in shaping her childhood than formal schooling.

At seventeen, following a period of hospitalization, Claire left school and resolved to pursue either art or law. She chose law, graduating from the Australian National University in 2007. Throughout this time she continued to paint, drawing inspiration from the challenges of relocating to a new city and beginning her legal career during the onset of the global financial crisis.

By 2018, she had established herself as an award-winning lawyer with a successful career in commercial real estate, specializing in sustainability in the built environment. Her work contributed to the development of green leasing standards now used internationally. That same year, she returned to her artistic ambitions, commencing a Master of Art at the University of New South Wales. In 2019, she relocated to New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. 

Although she had painted for many years, Claire did not begin exhibiting her work until 2022. Her debut show was at the National Arts Club in Gramercy, New York, and she was featured as one of the exhibiting artists in Forbes Magazine’s review of the opening reception. In 2023, she expanded her practice beyond painting into wearable art, launching Hashman Bites, a line of jewelry and sculptural pieces made from upcycled teeth aligners.

In 2025, she co-founded The Great Jones Street Salon, a gathering for artists and creatives, and was appointed as the Co-Chair of the Roundtable Committee at the National Arts Club. 

Today Claire’s work can be seen at exhibitions across New York, at her Noho studio, and at Maison 10 (4 W 29th Street). She also continues to practice commercial law.

Claire is a surrealist artist whose practice centers on painting, while also encompassing sculpture, and moving image. Her earlier oil painting series, “Incandescence and Plastics,”uses bright, playful imagery, particularly a hybrid cactus‑lightbulb form, to examine overconsumption, environmental degradation, and waste. This body of work evolved into “Hashman Bites,” a series of jewelry and sculptural pieces made from upcycled teeth aligners, merging beauty, humor, and sustainability.

Her more recent work, “Viscera and Light,” turns inward, often employing symmetry and forms based on mandalas to explore the physical and spiritual dimensions of human experience, and interconnectedness with each other and the earth.

She has also started using AI to transform her paintings and sculptures into moving images, allowing them to morph and reanimate in hypnotic ways. Her work is visually striking, drawing viewers in; once engaged, she invites reflection on deeper, and sometimes challenging themes, that can feel heavy within the context of art.

Her artistic influences include Salvador Dalí, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, M.C. Escher, Brett Whiteley, Marisol, and H.R. Giger.

 2025 – Profiled in the Sparke Helmore Alumni Spotlight Series.

2025 – The Relentless Women Show, which included Claire’s painting at the iconic Theater for the New City in the Lower East Side, was covered in AMNY.

2024 – Claire’s work was included in Bleucalf Magazine. 

2023 – Reviewed by Natasha Gural in Forbes Magazine.

2026 

• June - The National Arts Club, Gramercy, New York
• May - The Locker Room, UpMag Fashion Art Show, Tribeca, New York
• April - Tagliatella Gallery, UpMag Fashion Art Show, Chelsea, New York
• March - Artel Fest, All Women Art-Fest, Bushwick, New York
• Studio6 Gallery, Lower East Side, New York
• Feb - Theater for the New City, Lower East Side, New York 

2025

• December - The Great Jones Street Salon , Noho, New York (Solo Show) 
• September - The Great Jones Street Salon , Noho, New York (Solo Show)
• August - Beyond Art Space - Hamptons Summer Art Gala, Southampton
• July - Theater for the New City, Lower East Side, New York
• July - Love Binetti with Maison Ten, Sag Harbor, The Hamptons 
• June - 185 Varick Street, Tribeca, New York
• June - National Arts Club, Gramercy, New York
• May - Maison Ten, Nomad, New York
• April - The Great Jones Street Salon , Noho, New York (Solo Show)

2024 

• July - Tenri Cultural Institute, Japan Contemporaries Series 8, West Village, New York
• July - Gallery Max, Japan Contemporaries Series 8, Soho, New York
• June - Up Magazine 5th Anniversary Art Show, Williamsburg, New York
• May - National Arts Club, Gramercy, New York
• April – Rivian Showroom, Meatpacking District, New York
• March – Arteria Gallery, Barcelona
• March – The Buren, Brooklyn, New York
• March – Loft 39, Midtown, New York
• March – Theater for the New City, Lower East Side, New York 
• January – The Myth, Financial District, New York
• January – Gallery MC, Hell’s Kitchen, New York

2023 

• November – Lavan Gallery, Chelsea, New York
• August – Lavan Gallery, Chelsea, New York
• July – Galo Space, Soho, New York
• June – 188 Allen Street Gallery, Lower East Side, New York
• June – National Arts Club, Trask Gallery, Gramercy Park, New York
• May – Art Students League of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Midtown, New York

2022

• May – Art Students League of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Midtown, New York (Honorable Mention)