“I have this idea that one day we will be able to use our body parts as capital and women will be able to go about buying stuff by flashing their tits. Wouldn’t that be bloody marvellous?”

Sarah Maple is an artist, feminist and activist. Hailing from Sussex, she graduated in fine arts from Kingston University and has recently been dubbed as the heir to Tracey Emin’s throne by The Independent on Sunday – it isn’t difficult to see why.

Maple’s exhibition ‘This Artist Blows’ caused huge controversy. Windows and doors at The Salon Gallery in west London were smashed with bricks after there was a series of abusive, angry protests about her images from other Muslims.

“Your work can’t please everyone and if it does, there’s something wrong with it,” she explains. "People either love or hate it, I’d rather have either of those than complete indifference. I have learned to laugh at a lot of it now. I think the brick was an attempt to get into the gallery to destroy my work. It happened because they were scared of me. And to be frank, I was bloody scared of them.”

With her controversial exhibitions causing uproar all over the world and collaborations with Jefferson Hack, Dolce and Gabbana and Nick Knight under her belt, she talks exclusively to MOUTH's Jen Tippett about how it’s much more fun to colour outside the lines.

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