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, 2025

An exhibition at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth.

NECROLOGY is a site of mourning, offering an interface with absences, transitions, rituals, suspensions, shrines, and exhumations. The exhibition speculates on material afterlives, ecological grief, and the economies and systems of death(care) and loss.

Featuing: Emma Bolland, Claye Bowler, Jack Brown, Reuben Brow, Charlotte Dawson, Rebecca Elve, Rebecca Howard, Fred Hubbl, Sam Hutchinson, Lily Lavorato, Chloë Louise Lawrence, Bridget Robinson, Victoria Sharples

Curated by Victoria Sharples in partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields. Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.

Photographs: Emma Croman