If you’re an artist who tackles subjects like feminism, religion and politics with your tongue firmly in your cheek, you have to be prepared for a backlash (and that’s before you’ve even got to the snobs who think Keeping up with the Kardashians isn’t appropriate inspiration for fine art). But Maple is enthusiastic at the prospect of starting difficult conversations.

“The pushback motivates me,” she says. “I think that’s originally what got me into making this kind of [feminist] work at university: I was annoyed because I felt like the men were taken more seriously than the women.”

She later got the sense that many of her fellow students, including some of the women, were irritated by her “funny work that took the mickey” out of sexism.

“But I think it can be quite funny when you get someone annoyed about something,” Maple says, happily. “You know you’ve hit a nerve.”

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