Paula Doherty is an interdisciplinary artist and maker based in Glasgow. Her practice focuses on interactive and collaborative works using sculpture, ceramics, and performative actions to explore the intersection of queerness in nature and humanity, examining hierarchy and how queer theory reshapes our understanding of the natural world. Doherty has a BA in Sculpture and Environmental Art from The Glasgow School of Art (2018) and studied Post Conceptual Art under Marina Gržinić at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2016).

She undertook the Graduate Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2019, culminating in exhibition (‘Artefact or Artifact’ with Matt Zurowski (January 2020). Since then, Doherty has exhibited as part of Art Walk Porty (2021) and Glasgow Open House Art Festival (2021), and other exhibitions include ‘Lamenting Mud’ (Salt Space Cooperative Gallery, 2022) and PLUME (with Coral Brookes and Rachel Stanley, Crownpoint Project Space, 2023). Since 2021, she has facilitated arts and ceramics workshops for initiatives including Govanhill Baths, Art Space G41, BAAT Region 15 and Wild Gorse Pottery.

Doherty has completed Glasgow Connected Arts Network’s Participatory Art Short Course (2021). Paula also works under pseudonym ‘rubber glove ceramics’ for her maker’s practice.