Victoria Sharples


Often made without looking at the paper, Sharples’ drawings record specific features, figures, and architectures. These drawings extend Sharples’ sculptural practice, exploring medico-religious structures and bodies—both human and not—as spaces of presence, absence, and transience. Drawing here is not preparatory but sculptural in its own right: a spatial language that holds temporalities in suspension, holding space for many readings. 

About the Artist


Victoria Sharples is an artist & curator from South Yorkshire. They are co-director of GLOAM in Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Conservation Area, co-lead NMRG (the New Materialist Reading Group), and are a Lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Derby. Sharples is a member of Plant: Embedded Research Network and The British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network. Recent projects include 'NECROLOGY' at Haarlem Artspace; 'The Afterlives of Shows' in DEATH, Sluice; and 'From skin to land, from walls to worlds' with Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.


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Victoria Sharples, Thirteenth Century Church, 2025. Oil bar on paper, 21 × 14.8 cm. £50




    Victoria Sharples, Front of The Nave, 2025. Oil bar on paper, 21 × 14.8 cm. £50



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