Paula Jane Meir- BA (Hons) Fine Art
‘Another Day’
Paula Meir is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, installation, sound and text. Her practice explores language, ritual and power structures, focusing on how words become embedded within everyday social behaviour and domestic environments. Rather than presenting direct narratives, she is interested in creating spaces that hold psychological tension and encourage audiences to reflect on their own relationship to the subject matter. Through the use of familiar domestic objects, fragments of conversation and immersive environments, her work examines how language can shape identity, behaviour, memory and control.
Her final degree project, Another Day, is an installation centred around a domestic interior containing ceramic plates, vessels, furniture and sound. The work draws on research developed through conversations with women connected to Trafford Domestic Abuse Services, with the text throughout the installation taken directly from real-world language shared by women during these discussions. Alongside this, the project explores wider social attitudes surrounding misogyny, coercive control and the normalisation of harmful behaviour towards women. The fragmented and often incomplete phrases reflect the repetitive and cyclical nature of these experiences, while allowing viewers to bring their own understanding and social awareness into the space. Initially, the installation appears familiar and decorative, using wallpaper, vintage furniture and domestic ceramics that reference comfort, routine and tradition. However, on closer inspection the objects reveal unsettling phrases and subtle interventions that disrupt this veneer of normality. Through this contrast, Another Day considers how harmful language and systems of behaviour can become embedded within everyday life. The work does not seek to provide fixed conclusions, but instead asks audiences to consider what is spoken, what is overlooked, and how social structures continue to shape lived experience.
