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
Material, Economics & Ecology, 2022

Convened by Sharples.

Film screening & international symposium sharing the practice-research of guest speakers whose work contributes to contemporary dialogues on (non)human ecologies, labour, trade & material resources. Convened by Sharples at the Museum of Making & UNESCO World Heritage Site. Featuring: Jumana Manna’s award-winning documentary Wild Relatives (2018) & Laura Wilson’s site-specific performance-for-video Deepening (2020). An introductory welcome address was given by Executive Director of Derby Museum’s Tony Butler. Guest speakers: Dr. Onya McCausland, Rafael Perez Evans, Laura Wilson, Sonia Levy & Ravi Agarwal.

Watch Wild Relatives Trailer ︎︎︎

Filmed by: Zack Harrison & Lewis Allsopp. Photography: David Lindsay. 

Funded by Early-Career Researcher Development Fund