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
Instagram

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

Ash, 2018–2020

Lokta paper, envelope. 
Participatory performers included: Sagar Mandandhar & Pratima Thakali from Kathmandu School of Art and Design and Nepali Musician Anil Shahi. The substrates were chemically analysed by scientists: Karl Heaton (University of York), Simon Reid & Andrew Hobson (University of Leeds) & Andrew Smith (SGS Laboratories) using Gas-Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).