Naoko works with a diverse variety of media including glass, ceramic sculpture, photography, drawing, painting and printmaking. The work she produces reflects her enduring interest and fascination with moments in nature. Naoko has a deep curiosity about time, and the apparent paradox where, by its very nature, time passes fleetingly, yet contained within each and every moment, is everything. In any given moment the past, present and future are united; so too are decay and regeneration, the natural and the constructed.
For Naoko, within her practice, there is a transcendental space to be found, where the simultaneous states of wholeness and emptiness can be revealed, explored, played with. Implicitly and threaded throughout each aspect of her diverse practice, this spiritual inquiry is contained, an inquiry that goes to the very heart of what it means to be human.
Naoko was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is currently based in London. She gained MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art.