'It's a Girl!' - a new solo exhibition by me, Sarah Maple!

Hello everyone!

Firstly happy new year!

Secondly thank you all so much for your patience, I have been going on about this new work for some time without giving away any information.

Now I am very happy to announce my brand new solo exhibition of work!

'It's a Girl!' will be at Aubin Gallery from 9th February - 9th March 2012.

I'm very excited indeed as I haven't worked on anything like this before or shown a brand new body of work in 4 years.

I hope you enjoy the teaser piece below 'Lollypop, Lollpop'.

Thank you for all your support and I hope to see you there! xxxxxx

Young feminist! Adorable.

I just wanted to share this video with you, so excellent. Most adults don't even question these things.

'I fell in love with a conceptual artist....'short video by Tom O'Dwyer.

'I fell in love with a conceptual artist and it was totally meaningless' by Miriam Elia

Miriam and I started working on this project together from practically the day we met 18 months ago. When I first read it I couldn't stop laughing. I absolutely loved it and the more I talked about it with Miriam, the more I wanted to help her to exhibit it in the best possible way.

The piece is all about Miriam's relationship with Martin Creed and how he broke her heart. In the work she tells her story in the style of confessional 'Take a Break' magazine.

It took a long time for us to get to this point, we visited galleries, empty shops, even had a meeting with the head honchos at Trafalgar Square. But when we visited 'The Nave' in Islington we realised we'd found the PERFECT space. And it was OUR space. We didn't have to change the work, we didn't have to apologise for anything, we could show it in it's full glory and sing 'All Rise' by Blue with a choir.

I have absolutely LOVED working on this. Thank you Miriam for getting me involved and thank you everyone who helped make it happen.

Here's some pictures and there will be a video to follow.

To find out a bit more about the piece, here is an interview with Miriam for Spoonfed http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/i-fell-in-love-with-a-conceptual-artist-and-it-was-totally-meaningless-interview-with-miriam-elia-6234/

Portrait by Bharat Choudhary for The Alexia Foundation

WOW. Photo taken in my parents house by Bharat Choudhary for his latest project. Even my Mum was impressed.
© Bharat Choudhary/The Alexia Foundation

Musee de Beaux Arts.

Musee de Beaux Arts by W.H Auden. I'm not much of a poem person but it has always fascinated me. It feels very applicable to events in my life in 2011. I think about it most days. So here it is.

Accompanied by a photo I took a few weeks back.

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

New piece for Frieze....

I actually had this idea whilst going around Frieze in 2010. Showing this in a group show in London this month.

Hooray for the dutch! Here's the documentary in full!