

I work across ceramics, perfumery, and territorial research, starting from hands-on practice and direct experience. For me, materials are tools for investigation: a way to explore, understand, and ask questions, rather than an end in themselves.
My training comes from the textile and fashion world, through a practice rooted in experimentation, reclaimed yarns, and the creation of tapestries as narrative and material surfaces. This background continues to shape my relationship with matter, gesture, repetition, and rhythm.
For the past five years, ceramics has been an important part of my way of working and conducting research, alongside soap workshops and a sensory practice with herbs, spices, and natural ingredients. At the same time, I pursue research on plants, oil-based perfumes, and practices of transformation and care, with attention to pre-colonial knowledge and non-academic forms of understanding.
I am interested in what emerges from places and communities: wild herbs, daily rituals, food, craftsmanship, spirituality, and simple materials. In recent years, this research has become increasingly intertwined with slow travel and mountain territories.
My work moves between practice, curation, and storytelling, through workshops, writing, photography, and the design of spaces and visual narratives. The focus is not only on the final object but on how it is shared, perceived, and connected to its context.
My path unfolds through collaborations, residencies, and editorial projects, remaining an open-ended research, made of movement, experimentation, and returns.
Naomi Oke
naomi.oke1995@gmail.com
Based in Milano