New work
'The Sarah Maple Show' is Maple's sharpest and most biting presentation yet: a satire on the artworld that she both rejoices in and despairs at.
This key work is a ground breaking series of short films that fuse art with sitcoms. An ‘art-com’ if you will.
Exploring the experience of being an artist, and a very particular outspoken artist, each film is a semiautobiographical piece, a heightened reality that draws influence from Extras and Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as seminal artists such as Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas.
Featuring Maple’s real-life collectors and colleagues - such as David Tennant, Sonia Boyce, Will Gompertz, Nikki Bedi and the curator Kate Bryan playing a bad feminist - the fictional sitcom/video art will be a meta experience, blurring the line between fiction and reality.
By having what is essentially video art meets sitcom available to all to view from home, Maple aim to push the boundaries of what art can be and who it is available to.