Victoria Emily Sharples

Artist & researcher
︎︎︎necro-ecologies, posthumanist performativity, (im)materiality, space-time matterings 

Co-director, curator 
︎︎︎GLOAM (gallery & studios).
see: gloamgallery.com/

Co-led of NMRG (New Materialist Reading/Research Group)
see: @nmrg.uod

︎︎︎ NECROLOGY OPEN CALL 2025

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Upcoming / Recent ︎︎︎

2025 NMRG in partnership with Playing Feilds & Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth. Curated by Sharples

2025 Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples

2025 Tora Hed at GLOAM. Curated by Sharples

2025 Freehouse, Birmingham X GLOAM, Sheffield

2024 Speaker, Talking Sculpture: Dialects of Making, symposium & exhibition in association with TSM: Talking Sculpture Making at Vessel Gallery, York St John University. Keynote: Dr. Grizelda Pollock. Curated by Dr. Charlotte Cullen 

2023 Paper Contribution: ‘The shelled gastropod: trans-corporeality in necro-ecologies’ as part of the Trans Ecologies Symposium, Department of Geography at Durham University. Co-led by Dr.  Sage Brice & Dr. Felix McNulty

2023 Journal Article, ‘Epitaphic Readings: Diagrams as (Re)incarnations’ 2023, published as part of Performance Research Journal (PRJ) Volume 27, Issue 7 ‘On Diagrams and the Diagrammatic, edited by Dr. Andrej Mircev. Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd 







Victoria Emily Sharples

Artist & researcher
︎︎︎necro-ecologies, posthumanist performativity, (im)materiality, space-time matterings

Co-director, curator
︎︎︎GLOAM (gallery & studios).
see: gloamgallery.com/

Co-led of NMRG (New Materialist Reading/Research Group)
see: @nmrg.uod

︎︎︎ NECROLOGY OPEN CALL 2025

About
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Upcoming / Recent ︎︎︎

2025 NMRG in partnership with Playing Feilds & Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth. Curated by Sharples

2025 Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples

2025 Tora Hed at GLOAM. Curated by Sharples

2025 Freehouse, Birmingham X GLOAM, Sheffield


About

Dr. Victoria Sharples (she/they) is an artist, researcher & curator. Sharples is Co-director of GLOAM (gallery & studios) in Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Conservation Area (CIQ). They are Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of Derby & Co-lead NMRG (the New Materialist Reading/Research Group) with Dr. Rebecca Howard.

The materiality of Sharples’ work is often the subject, where conditions such as permanence and impermanence – suspension, preservation, and curing; secretion, porousness, and pooling– infer relationalities between human and non-human bodies, space-time matterings and necro-ecologies. The works produced as part of this practice often take the form of site-specific sculptures, time-sensitive performances, and written publications.

Sharples is a member of Plant: Embedded Research Network, The British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network & DMARC (The Digital & Material Artistic Research Centre. Previous appointments include: Lecturing on the International Foundation Year at Leeds Beckett University and on BA Fine Art.

Selected CV

EDUCATION

2025 FHEA (Fellow of Higher Education Academy), University of Derby

2025 PGCert (Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education), University of Derby

2021 PhD (Dr. of Philosophy) Leeds Beckett University

2015 MA (Distinction) York St John University

2013 BA (Hons) York St John, University

Recent/Upcoming:

EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST TALKS

2025 Upcoming with Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples

2025 Upcoming, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth. In partnership with NMRG (New Materialist Reading/Research Group), Playing Fields. Curated by Sharples

2025 Upcoming with Tora Hed at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples

2025 Upcoming (Exchange Project), Freehouse, Birmingham & GLOAM, Sheffield

2024 Putting a Project Together with GLOAM & Bloc Projects in partnership with Kaleidoscope Network

2024 Twenty Truant Shapes with Nathan Walker at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples. Featured as part of the Sheffield Showcase Festival

2024 Locusts of the Sickly Sun with Speculative Proxy, Alexandra Searle & Joel Wycherley. Curated by Sharples

2024 Bodies: Art, Architecture & Archaeology, the New Materialist Reading Group (NMRG). Prof. Cordelia Warr, Dr. Lenore Thompson, Dr. Xristina Penn, Dr. Rebecca Howard & Dr. Victoria Sharples

2023 Bloc Projects Members Show with Sally Barton, Heavy Water, Jack Lewdjaw, Marina Yoshinari. Guest selected by Mala Yamey

2023 Testing Ground, Gallery–Studio Exchange Project, Serf, Leeds & GLOAM, Sheffield

2023 An Elastic Continuum (Exhibition) with Simon Carter, Grace Clifford, Craig Fisher, Helen Hamilton, Rebecca Howard, Sinéad Kempley, Victoria Sharples, Emily Speed, Rose Hedy Squires, Rachel Stanley, Lucy Vann, Henriette Von Muenchhausen & Nathan Walker, ‘New Materialist Reading Group’ (NMRG)

2023 Courses for Dis-course(s) with Roo Dhissou at GLOAM, Sheffield. Curated by Sharples in partnership with PRIMARY, Nottingham

2023 If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day, with The Field, Chaos Magic & GLOAM. Curated by Dinosaur Kilby for East Side Projects, Birmingham

2023 Overcast, Format International Photography Festival, Derby

2023 St Andrew’s, Exchange Programme Exhibition with Two Queen, Leicester

2022 “When we die, where do we go?” Artist Talk at Abney Park Cemetery London, for the Anti-University Now 2022 Festival!!! with care worker, horticultural therapy volunteer & trainee Death Doula Katie Crabtree. Supported by Hackney Council, London

2022 Offering from the River (Exhibition & Artist Talk) as part of ‘Out & About: Creative Weekenders in the CIQ’ (Cultural Industries Quarter) ‘On Sustainability’ with GLOAM & Sheffield Showcase Festival, Sheffield

2022 Figureheads: Bloc Projects Member’s Show with Dr. Julia McKinley, Sam Hutchinson, Will Hughes & Duncan Poulton, curated by GLOAM, Sheffield

SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS

2024 Trans-local Ecologies, Guest Presentation as part of Transmission Lectures, Sheffield Hallem University

2024 Jerwood Survey III, artists tour (Che Applewhaite, Aqsa Arif, MV Brown, Philippa Brown, Alliyah Enyo, Sam Keelan, Paul Nataraj, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Ebun Sodipo, Kandace Siobhan Walker) of Sheffield Cultural Industries Conservation Area with Site Gallery, Arts Catalyst, Bloc Projects & GLOAM

2024 Talking Sculpture: Dialects of Making (Symposium) in association with TSM: Talking Sculpture Making at Vessel Gallery, York St John University. Keynote: Dr. Grizelda Pollock. Curated by Dr. Charlotte Cullen. Funded by the Henry Moore Foundation

2023 The Shelled Gastropod: Trans-Corporeality in Necro-Ecologies as part of the Trans Ecologies Symposium, Department of Geography at Durham University with Dr. Sage Brice & Dr. Felix McNulty

2023 Studio Culture Guest Seminar for MA Fine art, Lincoln University

2023 An Elastic Continuum (Symposium) with Ellie Barrett, Bethan Hughes, Sinéad Kempley, Victoria Lucas & Stephanie Rushton, ‘New Materialist Reading Group’ (NMRG)

2023 East Bristol Contemporary Day School with Jack Lewdjaw at GLOAM

2023 University of Derby Fine art Team (contribution to ‘On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach’, The Glasgow School of Art convened in partnership with Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Art)

2022 Material, Economics & Ecology at Derby’s Museum of Making with Jumana Manna, Laura Wilson, Dr. Onya McCausland, Tony Butler, Rafael Pérez Evans, Sonia Levy & Ravi Agarwal. Convened by Sharples

2022 Interdisciplinary Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries, symposium with Valeria Carnevale (Architecture), Dr. Rebecca Howard (Photography) & Dr. Victoria Sharples (Performance), University of Derby

2022 The Performativity of Matter guest seminar for MA Photography & Fine art, University of Derby 2022 Setting-up DIY art spaces presentation for BA Photography, University of Derby

2021 The (In)separability of Matter: On Prana, Energy & Permeation for the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science & the Arts), Conference Contribution at the 34th Annual Meeting & Exhibition at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2021 Imperceptible Performance interview for LARC – the Leeds Arts Research Centre, Leeds

2017 Performance & Uncertainty International Symposia, The Tetley, Leeds & Institute Contemporary Art (ICA), London

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Becoming Part of the Architecture: Embedded Artistic Research with Dr. Jonathan Orlek, Stu Burke, Dr. Julia McKinlay, Dr. Victoria Sharples and James Thompson. Published by Sluice

2022 Epitaphic Readings: Diagrams as (Re)incarnations, Performance Research Journal, Edited by Dr. Andrej Mircev. Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis

2022 Blowing Water, Critical Care with artist JJ Chan and Dr. Sunshine Wong at Bloc Projects, Sheffield

2022 Offering from the River photographic-written article for the Fundamentalist Journal

2022 Ready-to-Assemble, abstract accepted for co-authored paper with Dr. Rebecca Howard, Cumulus Association

2021 On Symbiosis, Zoonosis, essay published as part of Horizon Journal, Edition Four

FUNDING & AWARDS & PRESS

2024 Meet the gallerists shaking up the art world, Nancy Durrant, The Sunday Times

2024 Union Education Award Nominee

2024 Sheffield Showcase Festival, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2024 Arts, Humanities & Education (AHE) Research Fund

2023 GLOAM, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2023 Early Career Researcher Development Fund, Research & Knowledge Exchange Office (URKEO)

2023 Sheffield Showcase Festival, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2022 GLOAM, Arts Council England (ACE), Grants for the Arts

2022 GLOAM, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2022 Sheffield Showcase Festival, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2022 Early Career Researcher Development Fund, Research & Knowledge Exchange Office (URKEO)

2021 Early Career Researcher Development Fund, Research & Knowledge Exchange Office (URKEO)

2021 Early Career Academic, supported by the SURE fund (Sustaining University Research Expertise)

2020 GLOAM, Arts Council England (ACE), Grants for the Arts

2020 GLOAM, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

2020 GLOAM, Sheffield City Council (SCC)

GLOAM EXHIBITIONS

2025 To Rest Amongst the Blades with Abi Charlesworth in partnership with Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth

2025 Constructing the Surface with Julia McKinlay

2025 From Ancient Waters to Arid Landscapes with Lucie Kordačová & Miroslava Večeřová

2024 Momentary Sculptures with Stu Burke

2024 Stomach of Silt with Groundmouth (Harry Martin & Milly Melbourne)

2024 Embers with Sam Blackwood, Grace Clifford, Sam Hutchinson, Conor Rogers

2024 Twenty Truant Shapes with Nathan Walker. Featured as part of the Sheffield Showcase Festival

2024 Locusts of the Sickly Sun with Speculative Proxy, Alexandra Searle & Joel Wycherley.

2024 Yellow June (Juin Jaune) with Roland Orépük, Ollie Guyon, Meg Shirayama, Shawn Stipling & Jo McGonigal

2024 Ground Test (Serf at GLOAM), with Sunny Vowles, Kristina Nenova, Jesse McMahon, Hannah Ackroyd, Adam Burntown, Charlotte Cullen, KP Culver, Melissa Burntown, Donna Coleman, Seren Oakley, Jill McKnight & Joshua Hart

2024 Sun is Out with Semi Precious & Yasmin Vardi

2024 Arid Landscapes and Ancient Waters (Residency) Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova

2024 Entropy Madeline Adams

2024 Testing Ground (GLOAM at Serf) with Victoria Sharples, Stu Burke, Rose Hedy Squires & Thomas Lee Griffiths

2023 Tread Softy with Kelan Andrews, Brianna Beckford, Alana Lake & Renee Nie

2023 Material Action with Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham

2023 Tracing Matter, Lucy Crouch & Matthew Vaughan

2023 Courses for Dis-course(s) with Roo Dhissou at GLOAM, Sheffield. In partnership with PRIMARY, Nottingham

2023 Mirror with Jack Ginno

2023 Bogland with Jonny Davey & Sam Francis Read

2023 Welcome to Map Making Guide of Drystone Walling One-Eyed Giants with Dale Holmes

2023 If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day with GLOAM and Eastside Projects

2023 GLOAM Member’s Show, GLOAM and Two Queens

2023 Undress me with your eyes… Nisa Khan

2022 Creating Patterns with Dr. Harold Offeh

2022 Beneath the Pewter Sky with Dan Chan, Charlotte Cullen, Gusty Ferro, India Garry, Kumbirai Makumbe, David Reynolds, Will Hughes, Conner Shields, Danielle Williams

2022 Offering from the River with Victoria Sharples

2022 Dr. Onya McCausland’s Billboard Commission, Six Bells Red

2022 Forehead on Glass with Celeste McEvoy

2022 Figureheads: Bloc Projects Member’s Show with Dr. Julia McKinley, Sam Hutchinson, Will Hughes & Duncan Poulton, curated by GLOAM

2022 An Expanded Field with Nicola Bolton (UK), Kieran Brimm (UK), Stu Burke (UK), Deb Covell (UK), Ronan Dillon (IRL), Charlie Franklin (UK), Jack Ginno (UK), Philipp D Göbel (DE), Dan Hamer (UK), Alys Kuu (ES), Jane Morter (UK), Aslιhan Mumcu (TUR), Beth O’Grady (USA), Ismael Ortiz (PAN), Sean Pearce (UK), Molly Thomson (UK), Alison Tirrell (USA), Mark Titmarsh (AUS), Kees Van De Wal (NL), Wilma Vissers (NL), Just Yvette (NL)
2022 Two Queens Member’s Show with Gino Atwood, Daniel Cowlam, Mateus Domingos, Jack Halford, Daniel Sean Kelly, Shivani Khoshia, Nick Mobbs

2022 Jonny Davey’s Billboard Commission

2022 Doves & Crossbones with Alistair Wood

2021 Blood from a Stone, School of the Damned with Mollie Balshaw, Maddie Banwell, Rebekah Beasley, John Carney, James McColl, Thomas Griffiths, Campbell McConnell, Grace Collins, Imogen Rough, Liam Cosford, Natasha Eves, George Gibson, Liam Newnham, Craig David Parr, Luke Routledge

2021 FOCM: Spring-Summer with Flo Main

2021 Method-Lab Part Deux with General Practice with Nathan Baxter, Andrew Bracey, Rob Britt, Kate Buckley, Joana Cifre Cerdà, Ross Oliver, Nick Simpson

2021 Children’s Media Conference with TATO

2021 The Magician with Dr. Stella Baraklianou

2021 MTPA (million tons per annum) with Joe Singleton

2021 Joe Singleton’s Billboard Commission