Maya McMahon-Boon (b. 2000, W Sussex) is a Glasgow based printmaker and visual artist who gained her BA from the Glasgow School of Art in July 2024. Upon graduating, McMahon-Boon was awarded the Glasgow Print Studio prize and was also invited to become a member of LOOP Printmakers. Most recently, she gained the Printfest Graduate Award for 2025 which took place on the Early May Bank Holiday this year where she also took home the Cranfield First Prize Award. She also exhibits regularly in independent shows across Glasgow.
Maya McMahon-Boon’s work is a study of architecture and geometry; a visual interpretation of how she maps, layers and expresses her subject matter. McMahon-Boon’s practice explores the materiality of the intaglio process and by using a variety of contemporary methods, she allows herself to play with ideas across many different visual languages. She creates an abstract distinction between the organic and the inorganic by her compositions focusing predominantly on colour, viscosity and shape.
Wet Fish Café is one of several new pieces that make up part of a new series of prints McMahon-Boon is currently working on, Steelworks. This new strand of work aims to make a more definite link between urbanisation and her physical making process, such as erosion through acid-biting. Steelworks was inspired by preliminary site-specific drawings of factories and power plants.
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