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


NECROLOGY OPEN CALL 2025

Artist-Curator Victoria Sharples invites interdisciplinary submissions for an exhibition to be held at Haarlem Artspace in Wirksworth in partnership with NMRG (New Materialist Reading/Research Group) & Playing Fields.

@nmrg.uod
@haarlemartspace
@playingfeildsprojects

Deadline for submission: April 18, 2025, at 12:00 noon

This call invites works in any form (i.e. sculpture, drawing) & may be informed (but is not limited) by the following subjects:

necropolis & funerary architecture: sites of mourning, chapels, mounds, burial-grounds
material afterlives: cycles of endings & beginnings, permanence and transformation
necro-ecologies: ecological grief, humus ecology (decomposers), remains, space-time-matterings
death-care: rituals of care, grave keeping, mortuary practices, grief work

The exhibition opens June 12 & runs from: June 12–15 (with accompanying public events happening across the weekend).

To apply:

Sign up to NMRG (@nmrg.uod) by sending a message on IG to join our mailing list

Complete the application form and return to NMRG co-lead Victoria Sharples (v.sharples@derby.ac.uk). CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION FORM

Please use the email heading: ‘NMRG Open Call 2025_Full Name’.