James William Murray works across drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture to create meticulous, concept-driven artworks. His practice frequently engages with themes such as memento mori and the spiritual resonance of objects. Murray’s work balances a clean, formal aesthetic with a quiet emotional charge, producing a subtle tension between objectivity and personal expression. His minimalist pieces are crafted through carefully considered material choices: polished graphite transforms wooden panels into dark, reflective surfaces, while silver-brazed brass tubes form cross-like structures that appear to break away from their frames.

Murray’s work is held international private and public collections, including The British Library, University of Brighton; The SPBH Collection, UK; The Hellenic Centre for Photography, Greece. He has exhibited at Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts; Canopy Collections, London; Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke; Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel; MoMA PS1, New York; Embassy of Iceland, London; Alice Amati Gallery, London.