Threshold Edition #9
Cut (Across)
Victoria Sharples
Cut (Across) is now available to purchase through Threshold Editions.
This edition has been produced alongside Sharples’ exhibition Cut, Gutter, Section and is included in the exhibition.
The sculpture is made from reclaimed black ceramic tiles and is finished with a pale yellow Italian tile cement. The work is mounted onto plywood with embedded fixings allowing the work to be simply installed, flush to the wall.
Cut (Across) was developed alongside the three large scale sculptures in Cut, Gutter, Section and explores architectural and bodily interiorities and exteriorities. The body of work considers the guts, gutters and drainage of buildings, specifically the residential terrace at Threshold which lays bare its plumbing. Much of Victoria’s work has explored necro-ecologies and care practices related to death, and the entropy and activities of human and non-human bodies - leading to a sculptural language that makes solid the negative spaces inside things - drain pipes, sinks, shells etc. The work incorporates the silicones, sealants, vinyls and other water resistant materials that can resist and direct bodily leakages. Victoria has drawn from researching the stage scenery in Derek Jarman’s film ‘The Devils’ (1971) and Giotto’s use of aspect - particularly how the paintings appear cut, dissected and staged. Victoria has a background in theatre - theatrical staging is a long standing interest, which inludes how flat structures and use of trompe-l’oeil create illusionary spaces, confusing inside and outside.
Cut (Across) distils this research into a concise vertical arrangement of tiles that brings together Victoria’s interest in architectural structures and waterphobic materiality.
Work Details:
Title: Cut (Across)
Date: 2026
Price: £85 including postage and packaging (UK only)*.
Material: Ceramic tile, tile cement, plywood, fixings.
Edition size: 8 (6 for sale)
Dimensions: 31cm (h) x 10.5cm (w) x 1.8cm (d)
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Threshold Editions publishes affordable sculpture editions and publications by artists working with sculpture and generates income for future exhibitions at Threshold. The sale of this edition is divided equally between the artist and Threshold.
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).
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Website: www.victoriasharples.co.uk