James William Murray is an artist, curator and researcher based in Brighton, UK and Heiloo, Netherlands. He is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at University of Brighton, where he also works as a visiting lecturer. James works across painting, sculpture, and photography, exploring the interrelationship between these mediums and their capacity to represent materiality, tactility, and corporeality. His work embraces the distinct qualities of materials, such as his monochrome paintings with graphite, where carbon pigment is burnished into linen, canvas, and timber, creating surfaces that reflect and distort light through their underlying textures. His Cross Form Emerging series explores bodily abstraction through wall-mounted frameworks made of brass, silver, and steel.
Murray has presented his work in international solo, group, and two-person exhibitions at venues including Saturation Point, London, UK (2024); Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium (2024, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017); Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel, The Netherlands (2024); iCOON Museum, Hook van Holland, The Netherlands (2024); The Church Tower of Sint Anna ter Muiden, Sluis, The Netherlands (2023); PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2023); Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK (2021); Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA (2021, 2019); and Towner Eastbourne, UK (2018, 2016).
