Paula Meir is a multidisciplinary artist based in West Yorkshire, working across ceramics, installation, sound and text.

After a long career in leadership and organisational development, she returned to education to study Fine Art, graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2026. This experience continues to inform her interest in language, behaviour and the systems through which power operates within everyday life.

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Her practice explores language, ritual and power structures, examining how words become embedded within domestic, social and institutional environments. Drawing on research, collaboration and lived experience, she works with fragments of real-world language that are translated into ceramic objects, immersive installations and sound works.

Recent projects have included a collaboration with Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS), through which she has worked with women affected by domestic abuse to explore the relationship between language, coercive control and everyday experience. Rather than presenting direct narratives, her work often uses partial phrases and familiar objects to create spaces for reflection and dialogue.  Alongside her studio practice, she is interested in the social relationship audiences have with difficult subject matter and how contemporary art can create opportunities for engagement, discomfort and critical reflection.

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​In 2026, her work was shortlisted for the Community, Diversity & Inclusion Award at the Manchester School of Art Degree Show Awards and selected for HOME Open 2026.

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