Hebden Bridge artist’s work selected for prestigious London showcase
An artist has been selected for one of the UK’s biggest design showcases with ceramics from an installation about the hidden, long-term harm of domestic abuse.
Paula Meir, a final year fine art student at Manchester Metropolitan University who lives in Hebden Bridge, will show work from her installation Another Day at the New Designers exhibition in London.
New Designers is the UK’s leading national showcase of graduate work, drawing thousands of visitors each year, with only a small fraction of UK graduates selected.
Another Day is currently showing at the Manchester School of Art Third Year Fine Art Degree Show. It is the launch piece for Unseen, a new public awareness campaign by Trafford Domestic Abuse Services (TDAS) about the long-term, often invisible effects of domestic abuse on adults and children.
The work was developed over many months in conversation with women supported by the charity and with frontline workers at the service. It is built from familiar domestic materials: ceramics, found objects and fragments of writing.
Paula said: “Another Day explores how language becomes embedded within everyday domestic life.
“Developed through conversations and collaboration with women supported by TDAS, the work reflects on the quiet, repetitive ways power and control can operate behind ordinary surfaces.”
Work from Another Day will be shown at New Designers 2026 at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 0QH, from Wednesday, July 1 to Saturday, July 4. Details and tickets at newdesigners.com.
More of Paula’s work is being exhibited at HOME in Manchester until Sunday, September 6. For more information, visit www.paulameirart.com