Claudia Chan-Shaw
BIOGRAPHY
Sydney born creative Claudia Chan Shaw has a multi-faceted career as a fashion designer, television and radio presenter, author, public speaker, installation artist, photo artist, and curator. With a BA in Visual Communication Design from Sydney College of the Arts, she is co-designer and director for the internationally acclaimed Australian fashion label, Vivian Chan Shaw. The label is renowned for its exquisite handmade knitwear and jewellery. The designs are represented in the permanent collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Claudia is perhaps best known for her role as co-host and presenter on ABC TV’s popular program, Collectors and her subsequent book Collectomania: From objects of desire to magnificent obsession. Claudia presents and produces Arts Friday on 89.7fm Eastside Radio and is a cultural tour leader for the Art Gallery Society NSW in association with Renaissance Tours. She leads the successful series of “Art Deco to Art Now” tours to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Miami, Wellington, Cuba, New York and Sydney, where she shares her love of Art Deco, history, art and design.
She is a regular speaker at the Art After Hours and Armchair Travel series at the Art Gallery NSW and has spoken at the State Library NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Sydney, Old Parliament House Canberra, Bendigo Art Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery, National Gallery Victoria, S. H Ervin Gallery, Old Government House Parramatta and many, many exhibition openings. She was Curator for the City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival (2016, 2017, 2018), the largest celebration of the Lunar New Year outside China, and created the “Rabbit” lantern installation as part of the festival’s “Lunar Lanterns” exhibition. She also designed the hero illuminated art installation for the Year of the Rat 2020 Sydney Lunar Festival. Claudia was curator for the Lunar New Year at World Square, Sydney (2019 – 2021), where she designed large art installations for the Year of the Pig, Rat and Ox. Claudia has taught the Master of Design students at the Whitehouse Institute of Design Australia. She has been a guest lecturer at the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Institute of Technology Sydney; and Raffles College of Design, Sydney
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