Maxwell has amassed a broad portfolio, taking inspiration from diverse themes and working with various mediums. Focusing on the socio-political, Maxwell uses very few components to construct a poignant language of symbolism. This economic style strips away noise clarifying complex realities of today’s living.

Early work explored his relationship with consumer culture. In Brand New Me (2011 – 2016), Maxwell painted an epic-scale replica of his signature logo using 20 pints of his own blood – more human blood than had (or has) ever been used in one piece of artwork.

After reflecting on the negative effects of capitalism through such works, he moved on to Drawn Out (2013 – 2015). Maxwell moved to the French Alps for one year of self-administered isolation. Over this time, he obsessively covered 40 meters of paper with approximately 10 million hand-drawn lines. After completing this award-wining (Zelouse Emerge Art Prize), drawing Maxwell moved back to London.

His next project became Left Out (2015 – 2016). Like a social experiment of bystander intervention, this poignant commentary scrutinised the public‘s accepted ‘blind eye’ approach to homelessness. The continuing response is overwhelmingly positive and passionate. "Thought-provoking" (Huffington Post). The footage has been viewed over 40 million times and now is circulated in school textbooks in Brazil. The contemporary art platform Arteviste noted Maxwell’s "unique ability to both shock and move his audience".

In 2018, Maxwell began using paint to tell a story of how memories, however opposing, exist now in harmony. His paintings speak of pain, innocence, wonder and hope.

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