I am excited to announce my new Video Art piece will be available to watch on 14th October on Sky Arts which is now free to view!

Set in a vibrant and cutting edge Crawley, Sarah Maple’s Nazi Sexy Shark Show is a ground breaking series of six films that fuse video art with sit-com conventions.

The title arbitrarily takes its name from the words with the highest ‘click through’ appeal and surprises viewers at every turn as it sinks its teeth into the contemporary art landscape, taking aim at the experience of being a ‘female’ artist, dealing with the press, the whims of celebrity collectors, and the awkwardness of putting it all out there as performance art.

The films are firmly semi-autobiographical, lending the series a heightened reality that draws influence from sitcoms like Extras and Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as seminal artists such as Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. The series features real-life collectors and art-world colleagues such as David Tennant, Sonia Boyce, Will Gompertz, Nikki Bedi and curator Kate Bryan. With a concurrent show of my work at Jealous Gallery in Shoreditch providing viewers a chance to see the films in a real-life art installation context these films provide a meta experience, blurring the line between fiction and reality. Featured actors include Eloise Dixon, Grace Saif, star of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Natasha Vasadani, of the News Revue podcast.

On October 14th at 11pm the series will air on Sky Arts (Freeview Channel 11) in its entirety, back to back, as one 65 minute feature. After that, each episode will be available to watch via Sky’s ‘Sky TV on Demand’ catchup service, making video art available to all to view from home.