Look closely at one of Nadia Nizamudin’s pieces, beyond the dream-like colours and stitches, and you learn to recognise her voice. It’s a voice with plenty to say, and textiles is her language. “There’s a whole story to my work,” Nadia says. “I usually get inspired by the different countries I’ve been in.” Her work challenges issues facing women across cultures. She draws on her own experience, sharing the deeply personal through paint and stitch.
Now, she’s an exhibiting artist in Kuala Lumpur, alongside her full-time job as an engineer, but Nadia traces it back to picking up a paintbrush eight years ago. “I was pregnant with my first daughter,” she reminisces.
