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


Aggregates, 2017



Aggregates was a ‘Happening’ performed by fifteen participants in Scrooby Top Quarry, Doncaster. Participants included: Alexander Kaniewski, Claire Robyn Booth, Harrison Swaby, Jackson Swaby, Jacob Denness, Joana Cifre Cerda, Kat Hendy, Katie Crabtree, Keelan Swift, Kurpnieks Klāvs, Matthew Jackson, Paul Stewart, Robbie McGann, Stu Burke, and Verity Francoise Martha. Photographers: Tom Rodgers (Pentax ME Super, 35mm film SLR) and Ricky Adams (Canon, 5D SR 24-70mm), Videographer: Rafiqfuad Yarahmadi. UAV pilots: Arron Appleyard and Adrian Appleyard.

Aggregates was exhibited at 2021-Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe, East Street Arts, Bradford, Bloc Projects, Sheffield and Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent between 2017–2018.