Claire Evans is a creative business practitioner and the former Managing Director of Grumpy Sailor (2013-2020), a Sydney based immersive media company. Claire has a passion for the space where immersive digital experiences and moving-image meet. Claire has provided services for architectural and design practices, cultural institutions, the education sector, blue-chip technology companies and not-for-profits.
Claire is a Digital-Strategist-In-Residence at the Australia Council, working with Australian arts organisations to develop a roadmap for greater digital engagement, capability and/or innovation.
As a principal of Grumpy Sailor, Claire oversaw a suite of immersive and digital projects including but not limited to River Connections for the Melbourne Museum (Director Mike Daly), a suite of installations as part of the Hyde Park Barracks redevelopment (Director Mike Daly), the Road to Zero exhibition for the Transport Accident Commission, and immersive theatre Ghosts, Toast and Things Unsaid. Claire also Directed an immersive projection-mapped Mad Hatter’s Tea Party for ACMI’s original Wonderland exhibition (Curator Jess Bram, Exhibition Designer Anna Tregloan).
Claire is also a storyteller, producing the award-winning documentary Kings of Baxter (director Jack Yabsley), short films Arc and Jack Off with director Max Doyle, and The Red Valentine (director Glenn Stewart). In 2020 Claire was an Executive Producer on climate sci-fi 2067 (director Seth Larney).
Passionate about screen culture, Claire sits on the board of the Antenna Documentary Festival and is an advisory panel member at AFTRS. Claire is currently undertaking a Master of Arts Screen: Business, completing her studies in 2021.