Work

My work looks at the material exploration of my physical practice; how I map, layer and express the boundaries of my subject matter. Predominantly, my practice mostly consists of screenprints, and intaglio works; with my 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. I realise my material process through a wide variety of technical and unconventional methods, which allows me 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. I aim to highlight the physicalness of the work I create by showcasing its material qualities. This allows me work to speak to the geometry of the organic while simultaneously walking a tightrope over total abstraction; the interdependent relationship I have with the more uncontrolled elements of my practice allows the linearity of my imagery to function as their own structures.

I like to think of my practice in multiple strands. Throughout my creative process, my bodies of work evolve through an undulating journey of repetition and trial-and-error while studying colour and form in the imagery. This playful experimentation in my 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, I encourage the works to speak with each other in constant dialogue through forms, shape and subject matter.

Installation view from 'Get on with it!' at the New Glasgow Society, July 2024. Left to right: Liz McNeill, (me), Emily Chung, Frankie Brown.

Installation view: Red Trees (left) and Ruled cyan under asymmetric black (I) and (II).

Installation view: Night Manager IV through wooden panels.

Installation view: BA Degree Show at the Glasgow School of Art (May/June 2024). The space contains works on the walls as well as a screenprint on plywood panels which is free standing in the centre of the space.

Installation view:  Ruled cyan under asymmetric black (I) and (II) with freestanding screenprint (right).

Gridded black under yellow over red, 35 x 35 x 3 cm, multiplate etching on calico, A/P.

 

Gridded red under black, 35 x 35 x 3 cm, multiplate etching on calico, A/P.

 

Installation view: Ruled black under red and red (left) and Night Manager IV (right).

Maya McMahon-Boon

Visual Artist

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