Nao Nagamura
Nao Nagamura is a London-based textile artist working primarily with hand embroidery. Trained at the Royal School of Needlework, her practice investigates the relationship between language and perception, time, and material through slow, repetitive processes. Rooted in traditional techniques and natural materials, her work explores duration, attention, and the quiet presence of hand-making. She has contributed to the Coronation work within the Embroidery Studio at the Royal School of Needlework. She is the founder of Goodness Makes, an ongoing project connecting art, care, and sustainability.
My practice explores language and perception, time, and hand-making through textiles. I work not to express emotion, but through sustained, repetitive actions in which duration becomes material. Each stitch functions as a discrete point, gradually forming structures that make time, labour, and attention perceptible. I am interested in how the processes of accumulation can render the invisible visible, leaving traces of human presence. The work reflects a commitment to making as an ongoing act of attention, where meaning emerges through persistence rather than immediacy.
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