Sarah is an award-winning visual artist, photographer and performer.
She rose to fame after winning the ‘4 New Sensations’ award in 2007 for emerging artists run by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Following the win, her work including paintings, tongue-in-cheek photography and film has been exhibited in prestigious galleries worldwide including Tate Britain, The New Art Exchange, Nottingham, and Tallinn Art Hall.
With a Muslim mother and a British father, her art reflects her mixed background and explores the notions of identity, race, religion and culture. Controversial, tongue-in-cheek and humous, she is regarded as being one of the UK’s most thought-provoking artists. In one of her pictures called Haram, she paints herself in a hijab holding a piglet, which caused some controversary.
She also tackles feminism in her art and it is designed to be a protest. Her painting God is a feminist is one of her most well-known statement pictures.
Her first book You Could Have Done This was published in 2015 and her video art sitcom The Sarah Maple Show’was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art prize 2022.
She studied a foundation course in art at the University of the Creative Arts in 2003 and has a BA of Fine Art with honours from Kingston University in 2007.