Maya McMahon-Boon
Visual Artist and Printmaker
Boon describes her work as being “of the landscape”, an interest rooted in space, boundaries and velocity looking at the architecture and effects of man left around her. Her practice is heavily motivated by process and has been previously described as “both technically refined and intuitively led”. Her interest in materiality also allows for development across several different visual languages; despite walking a tightrope over total abstraction, each work has been composed within an iterative framework. By working strategically from one diagram to the next, each repetition finds its equilibrium whilst “playing a game of balance and imbalance”. Boon’s work has a “joyous and sensitive experimentation of mark making, colour, paper and engagement with inks”; its bold yet subtle, talking assertively but with calmness. Currently, she is working on a series of large woodblock prints, incorporating contemporary methods of laser cutting with traditional block printing.
Maya McMahon-Boon (b. 2000, West Sussex) is a Glasgow based visual artist and printmaker. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2024, Boon’s degree show featured in the autumn edition of ‘Printmaking Today’ and was partially acquired by ITV’s design team. In May 2025, Boon was the recipient of two awards: the Graduate Award and the Cranfield First Prize, both associated with Printfest, Ulverston. Boon currently works from Glasgow Print Studio and has gained representation from multiple galleries across the UK.
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EXHIBITIONS (CURATION *)
2026
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead Heath, (represented by Lime Tree Gallery), Battersea, London, UK
Small Measures, Glasgow Print Studio 1st Floor Gallery, Glasgow UK
Fresh Art Fair, (represented by Lime Tree Gallery), London, UK
London Art Fair, (represented by Glasgow Print Studio), London, UK
Annual Members Christmas Show, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK
2025
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, (represented by Lime Tree Gallery), Battersea, London, UK
LOOP 2025: Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Start With Something, Glasgow Print Studio 1st Floor Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Printfest, The Coro, Ulverston, UK
LOOPxBSMT, BSMT Space, London, UK
Annual Members Christmas Show, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK
2024
Paper, Boardroom Committee Rooms, Glasgow, UK
Troubled Grounds Open Call, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, UK *
LOOP 2024: Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Get on with it!, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow UK *
Print Unleashed, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, UK
BA Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK *
Curtains, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK
Salon des Inclusions, Annex Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Troubled Grounds, Stow Building, Glasgow, UK *
MulticulturAlba, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2023
Warm Voices, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Fluxus, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, UK
Offset, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK *
State II, Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK *
2022
First Edition, Garage Space (West Graham Street), Glasgow, UK *
2nd Year Painting+Printmaking Showcase, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK *
Exhibit: A, RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2021
Domestic Labour Part 2, Box Hub, Glasgow, UK
2019
Future Artists, Chichester University, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Printmaking Today (Vol 33, Issue 131), publication, published Autumn 2024
Curtains, exhibition catalogue, published May 2024
Fluxus, exhibition catalogue, published December 2023
Dá Leth, publication, published April 2023
Domestic Labour, zine publication, published May 2021
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Cranfield Award (First Prize), awarded at Printfest 2025 (May 2025)
Printfest Graduate Award, awarded December 2024
Glasgow Print Studio Prize, awarded May 2024
EDUCATION
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking (First Class)
2020 – 2024