About Harriet Mee

I’m a socially engaged artist, writer and researcher based in Stockton-on-Tees. I bring people together through making, creating opportunities to share stories, explore experiences and build connections.

My practice responds to the people I meet, the conversations we have, and the challenges and social movements shaping our lives. It spans textiles, embroidery, painting, collage and poetry, with work ranging from intimate stitched pieces to collaborative public artworks. Conversation and collaboration shape both what I make and how I make it. The time spent together listening, exchanging ideas and working alongside one another is at the centre of the work.

Women’s lives, creative labour and traditions of making remain important threads in my practice, alongside wider questions of identity, belonging and social change. Through circles of making and my own studio work, I explore how creating together can become a way to share knowledge, question assumptions and imagine different possibilities. My work is increasingly moving into activism, exploring how art can give voice to collective concerns and contribute to change.

Rooted in relationships with people and places, my work makes room for experiences and voices that are often overlooked. I’m interested in how art can help us recognise something of ourselves in one another, and how the things we make can hold both individual stories and a shared sense of belonging.