Maya McMahon-Boon

Maya McMahon-Boon (b. 2000, West Sussex, England) is a Glasgow based visual artist, and a recent graduate of the BA Fine Art Painting and Printmaking course at the Glasgow School of Art. Maya’s work looks at the material exploration of her physical practice; how she maps, layers and expresses the boundaries of her subject matter. Predominantly, Maya’s practice mostly consists of screenprints, and intaglio works; with her etching plates usually used on both sides to provide a spotlight on the marks made as an indirect result of other actions in the workshop. Maya realises her material process through a wide variety of technical and unconventional methods, which allows her the scope to play with ideas across many different visual languages. Within an iterative process, the scaffolding and uncontrolled marks allow for an interest in boundaries to take root. Maya aims to highlight the physicalness of the work she creates by showcasing its material qualities. This allows her work to speak to the geometry of the organic while simultaneously walking a tightrope over total abstraction; the interdependent relationship she has with the more uncontrolled elements of her practice allows the linearity of her imagery to function as their own structures.

Maya likes to think of her practice in multiple strands. Throughout her creative process, her bodies of work evolve through an undulating journey of repetition and trial-and-error while studying colour and form in her imagery. This playful experimentation in her work is then able to be regulated with geometric containers or digital image manipulation tools such as bitmapping. By having crossovers both technically and visually, Maya encourages the works to speak with each other in constant dialogue through structure, shape and subject matter.