Cut, Gutter, Section
Victoria Sharples
Private View 4 April, 2-5pm 🐌
Open daily 5 April - 4 May 2026
No booking required
Cut, Gutter, Section is an exhibition of new work by Sheffield based artist Victoria Sharples. Their work is informed by medico-religious architectures, and necro-ecological matters. In particular, Sharples 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.
These works will explore guts, gutters, leakages and the slick materials developed to repel liquified matter, sealing off and containing potential microbial growth. The works consciously respond to the exposed drainpipes and guttering of terraced streets - the necessary removal of domestic digestion laid bare for all to see. This is Victoria’s first outdoor exhibition of sculpture.
Threshold Editions
Victoria has produced a new limited edition sculpture that will be launched with the exhibition. An accompanying publication will be available to purchase through Threshold Editions. We are aiming to launch these during the opening weekend on April. Keep an eye on our instagram for news on their release. 👀️
Threshold Editions publishes affordable sculpture editions and publications by artists working with sculpture and generates income for future exhibitions at 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