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



Triptych, 2017

Shown as part of the Exhibition ‘Launch to Nowhere (with a straight face)’ at Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces, Unit 4, Great Northen Tower, Manchester. This launch platformed the various approaches to interdisciplinary live work by a range of UK and internationally-based artists through visual and audio installations, live performance, publication processes and interactive movement works by multidisciplinary artists: Glasgow Open Dance School (Glasgow), Martin Hamblen (Preston), Dounia Ismail (Rennes, FR), Ben Mills (Leeds), Alecs Pierce (Manchester), Stina Puotinen (Manchester) Victoria Sharples (Sheffield), Nicola Smith (Manchester) and Alina Bilokon (UA/PT) on her first visit to Manchester where she was be performing as part of Boris Charmatz 10,000 Gestures (MIF 2017).

Curated by Legroom, a Franco-British performance/participatory project by Juliet Davis & Amy Lawrence. Manchester UK.

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Video by Sophie Broadgate.
Publication by Camille Smithwick.