Victoria Emily Sharples

Artist & researcher
︎︎︎necro-ecologies, autopsical architecture, 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 ︎︎︎

2026 Cut + Gutter + Section at Threshold, Leeds. Curated by Julia McKinlay 

2026 ‘The Shelled Gastropod: Trans-Corporeality in Necro-Ecologies’ in Journal of Art and Writing (JAWS), 11.1 Bodies in Process, Published by Intellect.

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

2025 NECROLOGY at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth. Curated by Sharples








Victoria Emily Sharples

Artist & researcher
︎︎︎necro-ecologies, autopsical architecture, 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 ︎︎︎

2026 Cut + Gutter + Section at Threshold, Leeds. Curated by Julia McKinlay

2026 ‘The Shelled Gastropod: Trans-Corporeality in Necro-Ecologies’ in Journal of Art and Writing (JAWS), 11.1 Bodies in Process, Published by Intellect.

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

2025 NECROLOGY at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth. Curated by Sharples



Bodies: Art, Architecture & Archaeology, 2024

An interdisciplinary research event featuring presentations and practical workshops. 

Curated by NMRG co-leads Sharples & Rebecca Howard.  

For Bodies, Warr shares research on the Visual Culture of Stigmata in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy; Thompson presents a paper on anthropological absences and non-destructive material analysis of Roman bronze casts using X-Ray Florescence Spectrometry, and Penna facilitates a participatory workshop on traces of bodily-spatial relationships in reply to Morgan Meyer’s article: ‘Placing and Tracing Absence: A Material Culture of the Immaterial’ (2012). NMRG co-leads Howard & Sharples lead a clay workshop focusing on ‘the building of bodies’. 

Featuring: Professor Cordelia Warr, Dr. Lenore Thompson, Dr. Xristina Penna, Dr. Victoria Sharples & Dr. Rebecca Howard. 

Funded by University of Derby’s AHE Fund. 

Photographs: Orisunayo Akinniran & Carla Collinson.