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

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Upcoming / Recent ︎︎︎

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

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

2026 Tora Hed at GLOAM. Curated by Sharples

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

About
Instagram


Upcoming / Recent ︎︎︎

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

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

2026 Tora Hed at GLOAM. Curated by Sharples



Ash, 2020

Video 2.10 minutes, galvanised steel incinerator, Lokta paper, fire.

Performed at GLOAM’s former premises at 95b Mary Street, Sheffield, during the SARS-CoV-2 international pandemic. Exhibited later as part of the 2022 Civic-Lab Exhibtion & Symposium at Derby Theatre & Artcore, Derby UK.

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