Featured Artist: Maya McMahon-Boon

Glasgow Print Studio is pleased to present Maya McMahon-Boon’s first solo exhibition with a new body of work.

Boon describes her work as being “of the landscape” - an interest rooted in space, boundaries and velocity, a study of architecture and manmade structures. Her practice is currently heavily motivated by her printmaking process and has been previously described as “both technically refined and intuitively led”. Her interest in materiality allows for development across several different visual languages - despite walking a tightrope over complete historical abstraction, each work has been composed within an iterative framework, developing itself more each time from drawing to re-drawing to re-drawing. 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” - it’s bold yet subtle, talking assertively but with calmness. 

Having worked extensively with intaglio printmaking processes over the last few years, Boon has recently been exploring relief printing. For her Featured Artist exhibition, she presents a new series of large woodblock prints, incorporating contemporary methods of laser cutting with traditional block printing. This series is ongoing and looks at the scaffolding and physicalness of drawings, and diagrams that have been repeatedly redrawn. These diagrams often stem from a repetitive method of zooming in and cropping and can be inspired by her previous works, plate details, material processes, or more broadly, our urban environment.

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. She was also the recipient of the Glasgow Print Studio Prize in 2024. 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.

The exhibition has been partially funded by the Hope Scott Trust.