Born in Glasgow in 1972 and having worked for thirty years as an NHS dentist, Veronica Mee decided to fulfil a lifetime wish to study fine art. In June 2025, she qualified from Glasgow School of Art with a first-class honours degree in Painting and Printmaking.

 

By adopting the practices of sewing and embroidery that have evolved over centuries to define socially constructed ideas of class and gender, Veronica seeks to dismantle this narrative and extend the boundaries of textile art. Using textiles, thread  and household domestic materials alongside paints, her work explores the concepts of identity, invisible labour and societal expectations through the lens of a working mother.

 

This manifests as ‘textile paintings’, where sewing intermingles with paint, scale is manipulated and old fabric remnants are repurposed. This serves to not only question the art world status quo but also highlight the juxtaposition of the many roles we adopt within society - conflicting but also co-existing, hidden but visible.