Sarah is a Resident Artist at Unit 79/80 County Mall.
These studios have been developed in thoughtful collaboration with the artists themselves. She shared her excitement about the residency:
“I have always wanted a studio in Crawley and it’s been almost impossible to find a suitable space. I am about to work on a photography series for Creative Crawley and a large painting commission for a museum, so it is perfect timing to have the space in County Mall. I’m so excited for this new chapter and to share with Beth and Karl! It’s so lovely to have a creative community in Crawley and I can’t wait to see what more connections come from this.”
Sarah Maple is an award winning visual artist known for her bold, brave, mischievous and occasionally controversial artworks that challenge notions of identity, religion and the status quo. Much of Maple’s inspiration originates from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing.
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Sarah first worked with us on the Right Here festival in 20/21 and since then has been part of setting up the Crawley Creatives.
In 2025, we commissioned Breakfast Scene her collaboration with Meg Mosely – a fantastic, feminist film reimagining of comedy duo Morecambe and Wise’s iconic 1976 Breakfast Sketch and Domestic Abyss their accompanying exhibition inspired by the film. We showed the film and exhibition in Unit 79/80 County Mall, Crawley.
Image by Ian Greenland
Karl is a Resident Artist at Unit 79/80 County Mall
Karl Singporewala is an architect and Royal Academician.
We first worked with Karl in 2022 when he worked with Andy Field and Becky Darlington on the LOOKOUT project to make a mural in the Children’s Library at Crawley Library. He was a resident Artist at West Green Studios 25/26.
In 2024, he founded Karl Singporewala + the design bureau (KSdb) which currently has architectural projects in Crawley, London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and Berlin.
Karl was given a life-time honour in 2023 of being elected as an academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA). He is a chartered architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and currently presides on the board of trustees of Theatre Centre, a national leading theatre company based in Crawley which brings world-class theatre straight into the heart of schools and commissions new writing from trailblazing young writers.
Karl’s artwork is held in collection world-wide including the RWA, Bristol and Hamilton Princess Bermuda. Select gallery exhibitions include the Saatchi Gallery, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, V&A Digital Futures, the New York Institute of Technology, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Upcoming exhibitions include a major new solo show at the SOAS Gallery, London in July 2025. The show will include a mixture of new large-scale commissions and select works from the past 18 years.
Image by Ian Greenland
Beth is a Resident Artist at Unit 79/80 County Mall
Beth Williams is a queer, disabled designer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Crawley, West Sussex. Who specialises in Living Textiles, bio-design and knitwear.
We first worked with Beth when she collaborated with Sophie Merriner to create a Fashion Show for Crawley in 2025. Since then she has offered workshops and talks about her work for the people of Crawley. They were a resident Artist at West Green Studios 25/26.
In 2025, we commissioned Beth to create Together We Are a Garden for the West Green Window Gallery – the piece is now in Unit 79/80 County Mall.
Their practice centres around their experience of an inaccessible world, as well as the relationship between human and environmental sustainability. Their living textiles and garments grow alongside them. They collaborate to raise questions about the lifespan of clothing, and ask their audience to consider what happens at the end of a garment’s use by presenting an alternative afterlife through their living garments.
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Together We Are a Garden by Beth Williams – image by Beth Williams
Other image by Ian Greenland.
