MAYA BEAUCHAMP
mbeauchamp.art@gmail.com
@m.beauchamp.art
Maya Beauchamp is an interdisciplinary artist based in Falkirk and Edinburgh, graduating from the Edinburgh College of Art with a BA in Painting. Her practice brings together painting, collage, sound and video, her focus being on the aesthetics of glitch, fault, and decay.
She has exhibited on her own and with groups throughout Scotland, and is eager to exhibit further afield, starting with being a part of the Cambridge Artspace show ‘ANTIDOTE’. Her work is proudly queer and working-class, and in 2025 she became a member of the ECA’s Working Class Collective, a group working to improve representation of working-class persons in the arts and share skills to improve employability.
Maya teaches life drawing across Scotland’s central belt, informed by her arts education and her experience as a working life model since 2021.
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Title TBD, Duo show with Ritsby Moorhouse, August_21, February
- Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show, May-June
- Queer Voices, August_21 Coffee House, June
- Anthill, Whitespace Gallery, March-April
- Haar, Edinburgh College of Art, February
- ANTIDOTE, Cambridge Artspace, February
- Studio Mice Collective, Edinburgh College of Art, November
- RARE, Sneaky Pete’s, November
- New Contemporaries, Outwith Festival, September
- Threads, Edinburgh College of Art, March
- Cupid People, Whitespace, March
- Weathered Leather, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, February
- Rabbit Council #5, The Outhouse, February
- Kill Your New Computer, Kafe Kweer, December - Solo Show
-
Queer Art Here Today, Whitespace Gallery, November
- Rabbit Council #2, Wash House, February
Rabbit Council, Safari Lounge, August
PRESS AND PUBLISHED WORK
Blunt Objects, self-published, April
Untitled Surgery Diary: Bottom surgery, God, and complaining, self-published, February
- Veiled Connections, The Creator, August
- Leviathan Vol. 15 Issue 2, Illustrator
Collections
Mystika Glamoor, Edinburgh, Scotland
Anya Kornilova, Edinburgh, Scotland
Other works held in Private Collections across Scotland.
SELECTED AWARDS
- Moniack Mhor Youth-Led Arts Fund
- Residency, Ways Queer Art Residency, Gyula, Hungary, October
- Organiser (Curation Team) for Anthill, May
- Guest Instructor for Arts and Painting Society, March
Guest Drawing Instructor at Sketchy Beats, May and October
‘Queer Life Drawing’ Instructor, PrideSoc, September
Organiser for Cupid People, March
Volunteer Assistant to Edinburgh Art Fair
Installation Committee Member for ‘Threads’
Began teaching Queer Life Drawing at Kafe Kweer in March, until the cafe’s closure in August 2025.
DRAG - as king ‘Tainted Love’
QMU LGBT Society Open Stage, Maggie’s Bar and Cafe, Musselburgh, April
Drag Life Drawing, Contemporary Art Practice Society, Dundee, February
SKIN: Lips Like Sugar, The Dog House, Edinburgh, February - Host and Performer
- SKIN: Under The Mistletoe, The Dog House, Edinburgh, December - Host & Performer
- GLAMOOR, The Street, Edinburgh, July
- BRO CODE Open Stage, Leith Depot
- WOOF, The Dog House