Maria Meyer’s work explores ideas around materiality and the fluidity of meaning held within objects and images, as they move through different social spaces. Meyer deconstructs and decontextualises found photographs and objects, to create new narratives.

Meyer’s paintings draw inspiration from the anonymous and often mundane overlooked imagery that surrounds us—snapshots of strangers or images of used items for sale on the internet. Frequently honing in on visual fragments, offering viewers an intimate perspective on the subject matter.

In a world that is saturated with pictures and manmade items, both on and offline, Meyer’s practice speaks to the way we assign tacit values and meanings to images and objects and how easy it is to disrupt that meaning with the smallest contextual or compositional intervention.

Each of Maria Meyer's small paintings serves as a simple meditation on an object, a quality, or a feeling.

Maria Meyer recieved her MA in Fine Art from The University of Hertfordshire in 2021 and her BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University in 1994. Meyer has exhibited nationally, solo exhibitions include: Maria Meyer (Forthcoming), Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2026); Thingchronicity, St Albans Museum and Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024); Wafted from Paradise, Departure Lounge Gallery, Luton, UK (2022); Strange Strangers, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK. Selected group exhibitions include: Biophilia, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024); Collective Visions, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024); Warm Up, Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK (2024); The Wild Collective, OmVed Gardens, London, UK (2023); Correspondence 01., Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK (2021); Mayday, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2020); Women’s Work, Rhodes Gallery, Margate, UK (2020); a:tension, Masons Yard Gallery, London, UK (2019). In 2024 Meyer was Artist in Residence at Collective Gallery, St Albans, UK and was shortlisted for The Tagli Artist Award.