https://victoriasharples.co.uk victoriaemilysharples Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:08:51 +0000 https://victoriasharples.co.uk en https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Cut-Gutter-Section Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:08:51 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Cut-Gutter-Section Cut, Gutter, Section, 2026 Private View 4 April, 2-5pm Open daily 5 April - 4 May 2026An exhibition at Threshold Sculpture, LeedsSharples is interested in methods of cutting, sectioning and inversion to dissect space, foregrounding structural relationships between anatomies and architectures. For Threshold, she presents a series of thin timber structures that are cladded – part façade part ‘skeleton’ – with seams and supports purposefully exposed allowing planes and frames, interior and exterior, and the spatial constructs of flatness and volume to meet. Curated by Julia McKinlay Photographs Jules Lister&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9008001639f0b093b78f47d8829e00d0ec18ede114bc563bff8363eec27d3cb8/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5412-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317441" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9008001639f0b093b78f47d8829e00d0ec18ede114bc563bff8363eec27d3cb8/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5412-Large.jpg" /> <img width="2666" height="4000" width_o="2666" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8fad7852556b5063ddf534eec56872167943213897ba6da444fe1915b921395/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5487-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317421" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8fad7852556b5063ddf534eec56872167943213897ba6da444fe1915b921395/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5487-Large.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33483675630f16aa81cfafb2fe601984a2eed2412c384b90226cfc630f8be801/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5397-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317470" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33483675630f16aa81cfafb2fe601984a2eed2412c384b90226cfc630f8be801/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5397-Large.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a5810f0f0a4d9c97d87da1c77a1144a273e639094cb47f9e5074cc4e1e866a3/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5365-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317472" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a5810f0f0a4d9c97d87da1c77a1144a273e639094cb47f9e5074cc4e1e866a3/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R6II5365-Large.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02c8a8a7c70d008670906bbca452c3652c7bdd04b66b2141495853c9f05d86f0/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R62_0919-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317469" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02c8a8a7c70d008670906bbca452c3652c7bdd04b66b2141495853c9f05d86f0/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R62_0919-Large.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fc24d30422b1badf8b774d940c1328610b5dda04545ba81c0bd8735d2217b01/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R62_0893-Large.jpg" data-mid="249317457" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fc24d30422b1badf8b774d940c1328610b5dda04545ba81c0bd8735d2217b01/Threshold-Victoria-Sharples-April-2026-R62_0893-Large.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/FSTLFWTW-BOOK Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:46:49 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/FSTLFWTW-BOOK Night Café, London From skin to land, from walls to worlds (publication) 2026Night Café is pleased to present ‘From skin to land, from walls to worlds’ published on the occasion of Rebecca Halliwell Sutton’s solo exhibition of the same name. This marks the gallery’s third publication and includes an essay by Matthew Holman alongside an interview with Victoria Sharples.‍ More here:&nbsp;https://www.nightcafe.gallery <img width="1786" height="1263" width_o="1786" height_o="1263" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/922df280503bbce5417ccdd80536a6ab6133d52db9cc896c1fab41a07aa244bd/Unknown.jpg" data-mid="244763958" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/922df280503bbce5417ccdd80536a6ab6133d52db9cc896c1fab41a07aa244bd/Unknown.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/FSTLFWTW Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:30:14 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/FSTLFWTW From skin to land, from walls to worlds, 2025An exhibition curated by Victoria Sharples at GLOAMFrom skin to land, from walls to worlds is a solo exhibition by Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, responding to the light and architectural space of GLOAM. Halliwell-Sutton’s practice spans sculpture, photography, and text, harnessing the transformative properties of material, language, and light.&nbsp;Made from aluminium and silver gelatin liquid, her sculptures and photographs hover between object and image – something both three-dimensional and flat. The surfaces of her work are often reflective, dented, broken, and shattered; this vulnerability invites us to consider what lies beneath. In this darkness lies an allusion to violence, extraction, and alchemic processes. In photography, light transforms into darkness, and the materials used – such as silver gelatin – are extracted violently from the earth (silver) and the body (gelatin). Through analogue darkroom processes and forging, Halliwell-Sutton has fabricated a series of ‘developing’ and developed image-objects, investigating material change – both chemical and poetic. &nbsp; Funded by Sheffield City Council &amp; the Henry Moore Foundation Photographs: James Clarkson <img width="7652" height="5101" width_o="7652" height_o="5101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d413f5308f96f6af895aa79d2d9415e05601095b0ac1ce067af7f6f65ad61a6/_DSF3383.jpg" data-mid="237592609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d413f5308f96f6af895aa79d2d9415e05601095b0ac1ce067af7f6f65ad61a6/_DSF3383.jpg" /> <img width="7527" height="5018" width_o="7527" height_o="5018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/980d2945ab1649749ffab6aa3687230fb8a8151638243f6ca59e5de57ca86d10/_DSF3446.jpg" data-mid="237592614" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/980d2945ab1649749ffab6aa3687230fb8a8151638243f6ca59e5de57ca86d10/_DSF3446.jpg" /> <img width="7605" height="5070" width_o="7605" height_o="5070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59e1bf153bab333e4fd481fa63c4ceb8d702970e50a13ddd60f104b01cd537a4/_DSF3385.jpg" data-mid="237592732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59e1bf153bab333e4fd481fa63c4ceb8d702970e50a13ddd60f104b01cd537a4/_DSF3385.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Sluice Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:29:44 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Sluice Sluice, NECROLOGY &amp; Dig Me A Grave – the Afterlives of Shows, 2025Sluice magazine, Death Issue.&nbsp; A conversation with artist Claye Bowler, who throughout 2025 has toured the solo exhibition Dig Me A Grave at Steamworks Gallery, London; Auction House, Cornwall; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. Bowler’s work Over my Dead Body also featured in NECROLOGY – an exhibition curated by artist-curator Dr. Victoria Sharples at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, in partnership with the New Materialist Research Group (NMRG). In this two-way interview, Bowler and Sharples explore trans-archives, the preservation of bodies, exhibition-making, and the ‘afterlives’ of shows. Guest-edited by Dr Sarah Wishart Cover: Dr. Victoria Sharples (photograph: James Clarkson)ISSN 9772398839005Order here: Death <img width="1926" height="1254" width_o="1926" height_o="1254" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b6a009d08766a628b96ac4cab43c9aaab5df1adbb7782875ca0defff47a0f12/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-13.30.49.png" data-mid="244462253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b6a009d08766a628b96ac4cab43c9aaab5df1adbb7782875ca0defff47a0f12/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-13.30.49.png" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Necrology Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:56:16 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Necrology NECROLOGY, 2025An 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 &amp; Playing Fields. Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d40ef85c7a197b8069e639baefa6b347c934fbc98480074e208f11dad56ad25a/4-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0249.jpg" data-mid="234644176" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d40ef85c7a197b8069e639baefa6b347c934fbc98480074e208f11dad56ad25a/4-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0249.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Becoming-Soil Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:13:02 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Becoming-Soil NECROLOGY: Becoming Soil, 2025A workshop facilitated by Rosalie Bak at Haarlem Artspace &amp; St Mary’s Church, Wirksworth In Becoming Soil, living human bodies came together to co-sense what it is like to relate to non/living matters and materialities. Drawing on principles from the field of Haptonomy (the practice and study of human relationality and the phenomena of touch) participants were invited to make way for a more sensorial encounter with body, soil and death-care. Unfolding in three parts: ‘Noticing’, ‘Being with/in’, ‘Fermenting’, the creative and somatic exercises played with themes such as tenderness, intentionality, attention and affective touch, while also engaging with the exhibition space, works and surrounding landscapes. An audio-recording with site-specific meditation further guided participants to creep, leak and flow through all surrounding material, temporal, fleshy and microbial entanglements after which they gathered in a process of collective processing of the experience. The ink that was used in the creation of the collective work was made from the ferments of decomposing organic matter. Curated by Victoria Sharples in partnership with NMRG &amp; Playing Fields. Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby. 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The name of the structure becomes performative – assimilating the surname to burial heap-mounds and archaeological unearthings. In form, the necro-architectural sculpture evidences practices of inversion informed by the earliest uses of casting in ancient death masks and votive reliefs. The tiles are abstractions–figurations of bodily absences–presences observing an infra-thin* separation between ‘the ‘mortiferous layer’ of its surface [the cast], from the living context in which we find it [the headstone]: life/death’ (Krauss 1996:77). Heap, therefore, performs a dissection or spatio-temporal cut of site, architecture and body. This procedural dissection may be read within the context of Karen Barad’s agential cut; where matter ‘cuts together/apart as a “holding together” of the disparate itself [...]’ (2012:46). The gridded composition, synonymous to graph paper and space-time nets, allows the loculi-like structure to be performative in its presence: at once material–immaterial, swaying between flat–volumetric, presenting a continuum of spacetimematterings. Heap builds on Sharples’ companion pieces Soft Shell (2023) and Gurney (2023), which methodologically attend to ‘agencies that interconnect substance, flesh and place’ (Alaimo 2018:436). Shown as part of the exhibition NECROLOGY at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth.&nbsp;Photographs: Emma Croman.&nbsp; <img width="4452" height="6678" width_o="4452" height_o="6678" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acdea02db48a6db303b5ad3d799e3999d3734428eff87ee8aca3ae0a8ee89970/1-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0020.jpg" data-mid="234645261" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acdea02db48a6db303b5ad3d799e3999d3734428eff87ee8aca3ae0a8ee89970/1-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0020.jpg" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34c746edd170b7a033eeffc9f3f574bd35de011345d88132450cf860fad2e96e/7.-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0201.jpg" data-mid="234645264" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34c746edd170b7a033eeffc9f3f574bd35de011345d88132450cf860fad2e96e/7.-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0201.jpg" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f6bd6c0cb0c4d7163a35096b4760ca1d5d8bfe166f0fa500e5aef43592afdbe/5-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0019.jpg" data-mid="234645263" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f6bd6c0cb0c4d7163a35096b4760ca1d5d8bfe166f0fa500e5aef43592afdbe/5-Haarlem_Artspace_Necrology-0019.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/When-we-die Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:10:08 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/When-we-die When we die, where do we go?, 2025A death and ecology walk at Abney Park Trust, a nature reserve and historic burial ground in London.&nbsp; On this walk, we will collectively observe deadwood, headstones, living/dying pathways, and the ecosystems of which we are a part. In the spirit of Abney Park’s history in radical thought, this workshop invites joyful dialogues that gently rethink death and dying narratives. We will guide reflections and discussions, but all participants are welcome to participate in open discussion. Our focus will be on the organic matter that makes up and connects all living things – growth, decay, and rebirth – and how these cycles are visible in Abney Park. Through walking, observing, and conversing together, we’ll consider how endings and beginnings intertwine, and how more-than-human matter can guide us to reconsider our own mortality.&nbsp; This event is co-led with Katie Crabtree, and is also part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2025.&nbsp; <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78ad705d3003bc915a8bfb06e1e19d907c8b1720b6dcf5fd3c194059a338c469/DSC_3003.JPG" data-mid="244463962" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78ad705d3003bc915a8bfb06e1e19d907c8b1720b6dcf5fd3c194059a338c469/DSC_3003.JPG" /> <img width="11693" height="16543" width_o="11693" height_o="16543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7314fc05cf09c1c5f72e60b0cad8b26d4a066c47b687fee4fe56696664058698/WHEN-WE-DIE-POSTER-ITALICS.png" data-mid="238602119" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7314fc05cf09c1c5f72e60b0cad8b26d4a066c47b687fee4fe56696664058698/WHEN-WE-DIE-POSTER-ITALICS.png" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Loculi Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:32:48 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Loculi Loculi, 2025 Granite, basaltic dolerite, snail shells &amp; steel c-clamps.&nbsp;Loculi (Latin for ‘little place’) is the name of a gridded burial compartment that houses a body, like a snail’s shell —enclosing the organism within. Together architectural–organismic, archaeological–autopsical, Loculi performs aspeculative dissection of space, architecture and body. Shown as part of the exhibition GLOAM X free house at Grand Union’s Juntion Works, Birmingham.&nbsp; <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aab95fc7a999f9f9be037a290411c1bbd0eadcade0ecdfb61e05b104efdbcf5/Victoria-Sharples.-Loculi-2025.-Photographer_Victoria-Sharples_2.jpg" data-mid="236821715" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aab95fc7a999f9f9be037a290411c1bbd0eadcade0ecdfb61e05b104efdbcf5/Victoria-Sharples.-Loculi-2025.-Photographer_Victoria-Sharples_2.jpg" /> <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7985066cdb14a8785b75b54fa948a13f638a80a98607a999018837aa97e56e72/V1.jpg" data-mid="236821676" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7985066cdb14a8785b75b54fa948a13f638a80a98607a999018837aa97e56e72/V1.jpg" /> https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Twenty-Truant-Shapes Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:16:59 +0000 victoriaemilysharples https://victoriasharples.co.uk/Twenty-Truant-Shapes Twenty Truant Shapes, 2024 A performance curated by Victoria Sharples. Featuring: Nathan Walker. An installation of low structures and apertures that frame a body in parts, where language, speech, and memory are also dissected. Twenty Truant Shapes is a durational performance that sustains a tension between interior and exterior sound, visible and invisible bodies, and light and heavy forms. &nbsp; Nathan Walker is an artist and writer from West Cumbria, working across and between performance art and poetry. Their work explores voices, sounds and language as material. Short essay: ‘I went camping once, too’ by Alexander Stubbs is available to read on their Substack. It momentarily reflects on Walker’s performance. Below is an excerpt:&nbsp; [...] in the company of a burnt orange camping tarp, strung up at the corners, moving, adjusting, readjusting, uttering single words, and - at points – climbed out from under it to walk around and play with scattered objects. We spent around ten minutes sitting and watching. Cross-legged on the painted black hard floor. Admiring the dedication to sustained performance, lulling ourselves into inattention. Grasping at that still, motionless body under the cover and wishing that its presence in the room would force every lick of attention out of us. Eventually we left, but not before becoming part of it all. As our hands lifted the carabiner, and we grazed the tops of our heads on the corner of the straps tugging the tarp into place, we shared a moment with the body in hiding. And it stirred something in me. A forgotten dream, or something else. In that small square room, all at once we had wild camped [...].&nbsp; Twenty Truant Shapes featured as part of the Sheffield Showcase 2024. Supported by Sheffield City Council. Photographs: Victoria Sharples. <img width="3656" height="5485" width_o="3656" height_o="5485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/691681fd00ed30ec5da96d50eb481c99333d1352c98a248d85ff0830e61da98a/DSC_6458.jpg" data-mid="218130271" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/691681fd00ed30ec5da96d50eb481c99333d1352c98a248d85ff0830e61da98a/DSC_6458.jpg" /> <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8babdf6930a8ccba4c7b28e778c90f4de836bfeea74688ed4836510befebb1c9/DSC_6386.JPG" data-mid="218130270" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8babdf6930a8ccba4c7b28e778c90f4de836bfeea74688ed4836510befebb1c9/DSC_6386.JPG" /> <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac603a936c952ba891d7d3484ee5c60989add83fc211513e3dd0ce0b2d7085fa/DSC_6541.JPG" data-mid="218130272" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac603a936c952ba891d7d3484ee5c60989add83fc211513e3dd0ce0b2d7085fa/DSC_6541.JPG" /> <img width="3712" height="5568" width_o="3712" height_o="5568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff865be67d90b616fa3902024f0a53597d4afb0090af6a014c5c4182ad06fc0a/DSC_6701.JPG" data-mid="218130273" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff865be67d90b616fa3902024f0a53597d4afb0090af6a014c5c4182ad06fc0a/DSC_6701.JPG" />