Biography
Sarah Maple was born in 1985. She completed a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University in 2007, and now lives in her native Sussex. In the same year she also won the ‘4 New Sensations’ award for emerging artists, run by The Saatchi Gallery. Since then Sarah’s artwork, films and performances have been exhibited internationally, including A.I.R Gallery (NY), AGO (Canada), Southbank Centre (London), Kunisthoone (Estonia) and The New Art Exchange (Nottingham). She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast) in 2014. Sarah has also been invited to speak at many events at Amnesty International and Birmingham, LSE and Warwick university. Sarah has worked collaboratively on film projects with Nick Knight and Southbank Centre and her work has been included in publications by the Whitechapel Gallery and Gestalten.
‘Not for the coy or faint of heart, these unflinching, occasionally even controversial, investigations into what it is to be a woman and a Muslim in 21st century Britain are made joyful by her own very personal brand of boisterous, tongue-in-cheek humour. This is not sensationalism for sensationalism's sake, but rather a heart felt urge by a twenty-seven-year old artist of great sincerity and talent, for the viewer to look again, and this time with a more questioning eye, at traditionally accepted notions of identity, gender, culture and religion.' - Beverley Knowles 2011
