Claire Beale

Claire Beale is a creative designer, curator, advocate and educator who makes stuff happen. Her aim is to challenge and engage the wider community in the conversation around design, and create opportunities to showcase the value that design brings to our economic and cultural capital.

Claire is the DIA's Awards Committee Chair, and Jury Convenor of the Designer’s Australia Awards. She is also the immediate past National President, former DIA Director and former Chair of the DIA’s National Advisory Council. She was made a Life Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia in 2019. Claire  holds Bachelor degrees in the fields of Textile Design, Fine Arts (Honours) and a post graduate qualification in Tertiary Education.

Over the past 15 years, Claire has held a number of key roles including Design Tasmania’s first Executive Director, Academic and Programs Manager in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University and Executive and Academic Operations Manager at LCI Melbourne.