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NEW WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING... FINALLY!

Blood, sweat, tears, broken fingernails, everything has gone into this website. It has been a real learning curve, having never built a website before, I took up the challenge. Whether I have succeeded or not is another matter, but for now, I am fairly content with it. But as any person knows, an artists work is never complete - I'll be fiddling with it forever no doubt. 

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Please go over and take a quick look. Love it, like it or hate it let me know! Being a freelance photographer is starting to become very real now, and with only a couple of weeks left of uni the reality of life is becoming imminent. I'm excited for what the future holds, and hopefully you'll be seeing lots of new images and updates on the website! 

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2013.10

Sarah Maple

This week I want to show you something from Sarah Maple. She's an amazing young artist working with painting and photography and even some guerilla style political stuffs. She's so cool.

For my dissertation, I was looking into controversy within art, and especially within the Middle East and Muslim women. Maple, being a Muslim herself, but living in Britain gives her the freedom to make interesting, uncensored work. And boy does she make the most of it. She's ruffled a few feathers in her time but it is all with good intention.

I for one think controversy is of major importance, especially in art. Life would be so boring if no one ever tested political, social boundaries. And Sarah is especially interesting to me, as she's a feminist, and a Muslim, two things we don't often associate together. She was even kind enough to do an online interview with me for my work, so extra cool points to her!

Self Portrait with my Mother's Headscarf and the breast...

This was one of the images I used to illustrate Maples work in my dissertation. It was hard to chose from the huge collection Maple has created for herself, but something drew me to this painting (ye ye not the boob!) but it's a really striking image to have the association of the Islamic headscarf and nudity in one image. Anyway, I highly recommend as always to check out her other work, she really does have a mixture of different media, styles etc so there plenty to look at!


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Image © Sarah Maple