About
James William Murray’s minimal and conceptual practice spans painting, sculpture, and photography, exploring the iconographic, symbolic, and indexical potentialities of form, material, and process. Touch, trace, desire, and bodily fragility are central themes, with the memento mori and the theological concept of the relic recurring as key points of reference.
Murray's work creates tensions between the language of formal objectivity and an underlying lyricism that conveys implicit subjectivity. This contrast emerges through the interplay of structured material forms and the emotive, corporeal labour revealed in the act of making.
Murray’s work offers a meditation on the relationship between material and bodily presence/absence, where meaning is both constructed and dissolved—inviting reflection on the layered complexity of tactile, embodied experience and its resonances with memory and time.
Bio
James William Murray (b. 1988) is a British artist living and working in Brighton UK and Heiloo, The Netherlands. He 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); Canopy Collections, London, UK (2023), 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).
Contact
E-mail: jameswilliammurray[at]gmail.com
Galleries
Canopy Collections
3 Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2QA
United Kingdom
E-mail: contact@canopy-collections.com
Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art
Golvenstraat 7
8300 Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Tel: +32 476 475 928
E-mail: info[at]stephanesimoens.com
RULE Gallery
808 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO, USA
204 E San Antonio St, Marfa TX, USA
Tel: +1 303 800 6776
E-mail: info[@]rulegallery.com