When Claire Nakazawa was in primary school, she loved soccer so much that she asked her mum to sign her up to a local team. “At that stage, there were no girls playing in the Blue Mountains, so I played in the boys’ comp,” Claire explains. “A year later, more girls came and we had an all-girls team. Then, another year after that, there was a women’s comp. It was cool to see the girls’ side grow.”
As an adult, Claire’s been meaning to take up soccer again, but balancing a visual arts career with interstate writing intensives, touring, rehearsals, recording sessions and meetings for her band Haiku Hands means her schedule is “really random”. “When you’re part of a team, you really want to be there,” she says –…
