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

2021 - 2026

1st Class BA (Hons) Art (Painting), Edinburgh College of Art

EXHIBITIONS

2027

Title TBD, St. Sebastian-themed Fundraiser for Lavender Menace, St. Margaret’s House, October-November
Title TBD, Duo show with Ritsby Moorhouse, August_21, February

2026

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

2025

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

2024

Kill Your New Computer, Kafe Kweer, December - Solo Show
Queer Art Here Today, Whitespace Gallery, November
Rabbit Council #2, Wash House, February

2023

Honey, I Shrunk The Exhibition!, Whitespace Gallery, April-May
Rabbit Council, Safari Lounge, August

PRESS AND PUBLISHED WORK

2026

ANARKISS Issue 11: Bodies Without Permission, Independent, March
Blunt Objects, self-published, April
Untitled Surgery Diary: Bottom surgery, God, and complaining, self-published, February

2025

Veiled Connections, The Creator, August
Leviathan Vol. 15 Issue 2, Illustrator

2023

Leviathan Vol. 13 Issue 2, Illustrator

Collections

Mystika Glamoor, Edinburgh, Scotland
Anya Kornilova, Edinburgh, Scotland
Other works held in Private Collections across Scotland.

SELECTED AWARDS

2026

George Gorman Memorial Fund - Supporting a project on queerness in early 20th century Germany

2025

Moniack Mhor Youth-Led Arts Fund

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2026

Residency, Ways Queer Art Residency, Gyula, Hungary, October
Organiser (Curation Team) for Anthill, May
Guest Instructor for Arts and Painting Society, March

2025

Joined ECA Working Class Collective.
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’

2024

Communications Officer for EmpowerHer Exhibition, Tribe
Began teaching Queer Life Drawing at Kafe Kweer in March, until the cafe’s closure in August 2025.

DRAG - as king ‘Tainted Love’

2026

Solais, August_21, June
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

2025

SKIN: Under The Mistletoe, The Dog House, Edinburgh, December - Host & Performer
GLAMOOR, The Street, Edinburgh, July
BRO CODE Open Stage, Leith Depot

2024

WOOF, The Dog House