Maximillian Boxer

Bio

Max is a self-taught artist who began making work in 2020 during lockdown, entering art not through formal training but through compulsion. Creating feels less like a choice and more like a nervous tick — a constant need for stimulation that art temporarily satisfies. With a background in maths and education, Max approaches image-making with a structured mind, even as the work itself resists order with anarchic elements.

Often struggling with verbal communication, Max uses visuals as an expressive language. His work develops its own visual grammar, built from bold graphics, illustrative fragments and scrappy, high-energy compositions. Humour plays a key role, often emerging through the juxtaposition of clean graphic elements with looser, illustrative marks and popular culture references.

The work draws heavily from vintage ephemera, kitsch tat & branding iconography: sampling and collaging references into chaotic yet deliberate compositions.

Statement

I’m based in Margate and closely involved in the local art scene through my work in artwork printing and collaborations with galleries and collectives. My practice leans into chaos, speed and instinct, producing energetic, graphic-led work that sits somewhere between structure and disorder, logic and impulse. I work across multiple mediums, shaped by the vibrant and evolving art culture around me, which constantly pushes me to re-evaluate how and why I make work. When I’m not out urban sketching, you’ll usually find me at Don’t Blink, where I run a small gallery alongside my partner’s vintage shop, or at Archival Print Studio, scanning and producing fine art prints for local artists.