Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch
Bowditch at the Great Escape music festival in 2006
Background information
Born (1975-09-09) 9 September 1975
GenresFolk, rock, pop
Occupations
  • Musician
  • actress
  • author
Allen & Unwin
InstrumentsVocals, guitar, pianist, drummer
Years active1999–present
Websitewww.clarebowditch.com

Clare Bowditch (born 9 September 1975) is an Australian musician, author, and occasional actress.

At the 2020 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) she won ‘Best New Australian Author’ for her best-selling 2019 memoir Your Own Kind of Girl.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006, Bowditch won the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and was nominated for a Logie Award for her work on the TV series Offspring in 2012. She has toured with Gotye and Leonard Cohen, written for Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stone and Drum.