Cut, Gutter, Section
Publication
Threshold Editions has published Cut, Gutter, Section to accompany the exhibition Victoria Sharples: Cut, Gutter, Section (04 April to 4 May 2026).
This publication offers an insight into the research that has underpinned Victoria Sharples’ new work exhibited in Cut, Gutter, Section. In their essay, Victoria discusses the influence of Giotto’s panel paintings and frescos, as well as the significant influence of Carlo Scarpa’s architecture and Derek Jarman’s stage sets, amongst many other writers and artists that inspire them. Sharples reflects on how specific works of art and architecture has informed the sculptures presented in the exhibition:
The trio presented for Threshold are symbolic, sectional and stratigraphic - sharing an ‘autopsical architecture’ in which bodies and buildings may be observed in layers, where the ‘guts’ of the sculptures are purposefully on show. (Victoria Sharples, pg. 15.)
Following this essay is a conversation between the artist and writer El Morgan in which they discuss necro-ecologies, the ‘liveliness’ of matter, temporal materiality and the physical realities of making sculpture. This conversation is accompanied by a series of drawings of sculptural forms by exhibition curator Julia McKinlay in response to a studio visit with Victoria Sharples and the inside-outness of Victoria’s works for Cut, Gutter, Section. The printed insert is a reproduction of a vinyl sample, one of many that Victoria is collecting and meticulously selecting from to produce her work.
It is available to purchase in-person for £8, or £10 including postage. If you are in Leeds and would like a copy in person please get in touch by email or DM.
The publication includes:
- Limited edition indigo print by Victoria Sharples
- Cut, Gutter, Section essay by Victoria Sharples
- In Conversation between Victoria Sharples and El Morgan
- Drawings by Julia McKinlay
Book dimensions: 21 x 14.9cm
Materials: Perfect bound 40pp booklet with full colour print insert on transparent paper.
Edition Size: 60
Publication date: 2026
Co-Edited by Julia McKinlay and Victoria Sharples
Designed Julia McKinlay
ISBN 978-1-0684654-3-7
Cut, Gutter, Section has been supported by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.
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About the artist
Victoria Sharples is an artist, researcher & curator based in Sheffield. The materiality of their work is often the subject, where conditions such as permanence and impermanence – suspension, preservation, and curing; secretion, porousness, and pooling – infer relationalities between human and non-human bodies, space-time matterings and necro-ecologies. The works produced as part of this practice often take the form of site-specific sculptures, time-sensitive performances, and composite/architectural arrangements. For the past few years, they have been attentive to the ‘content’ and ‘container’ of sculptural forms, fabricating skin and shell-like surfaces that hold together positive–negative space. The processes applied are archaeological and autopsical, performing spatio-temporal dissections of site, architecture and body. Sites of interest continue to be chapels, mortuaries, burial grounds and necropolises, allowing for situated, posthuman, dialogues.
Sharples holds a BA in Theatre (2013) and an MA in Performance Practice from York St John University (2015), and completed their practice-led PhD in Fine art at Leeds Beckett University, titled: Imperceptible Performance… (2021). Sharples is based at GLOAM, where they are a co-director and studio holder. They are Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of Derby & co-lead NMRG (the New Materialist Reading/Research Group) with Dr. Rebecca Howard. Sharples is a member of Plant: Embedded Research Network, The British Academy’s Early Career Researcher Network & DMARC (The Digital & Material Artistic Research Centre).
Recent projects include: The Shelled Gastropod: Trans-Corporeality in Necro-Ecologies (Journal for Arts Writing, 2026); The Afterlives of Shows (Sluice, 2025), Necrology (Haarlem Artspace, 2025); Becoming Soil (St Mary’s Cemetery, 2025); When we die, where do we go? (Abney Park Cemetery, 2025); From skin to land, from walls to worlds (GLOAM, 2025).
︎ @victoriaemilysharples
Website: www.victoriasharples.co.uk