About

Nao Nagamura is a UK-based artist working with hand embroidery and quiet forms of expression.
Trained at the Royal School of Needlework, she creates meditative textile works that explore stillness, memory, and spiritual attention.
Rooted in traditional techniques and natural materials, her practice offers quiet resistance to haste and disconnection.
She is also the founder of Goodness Makes, a project connecting art, care, and sustainability.

I work with hand embroidery as a slow, contemplative practice. My work explores the intersection of tradition, stillness, and quiet reflection—how care and repetition can hold meaning across time. Drawing from historical techniques and materials, I stitch with naturally dyed threads on biodegradable fabrics, emphasising sustainability not only for the planet, but for the body and spirit. Embroidery, for me, is a durational practice—a way of sitting with time, with silence, and with the fragments of thought that ask to be returned to. I see it as a form of soft resistance—against speed, against forgetting—and as a gesture of presence and offering. Through my work, I hope to honour the invisible labour of care and share in the long rhythms of making, remembering, and repair.

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