James William Murray works across drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture to create meticulous, concept-driven artworks. His practice often engages with themes such as memento mori and the spiritual resonance of objects. Murray’s works balance a clean, formal aesthetic with a quiet emotional depth, creating a subtle tension between objectivity and personal expression. His minimalist pieces are crafted through carefully considered material choices. Polished graphite covers wooden panels, turning them into dark, reflective surfaces and silver-brazed brass tubes form cross-like structures that seem to break apart from their frames.

Murray’s work is held in the collections of The British Library, University of Brighton; The SPBH Collection, UK; The Hellenic Centre for Photography, Greece; as well as private collections in the UK, USA, and Europe. He has exhibited at Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts, Brighton; Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London; Canopy Collections, London; Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke; Museum Jan Heestershuis, Schijndel; iCOON Museum, Hoek van Holland Rule Gallery, Denver; MoMA PS1, New York.