James William Murray works across painting, sculpture and works on paper to create meticulous and conceptual artworks which explore reoccurring motifs, notably the 1:2 rectangle and 1:2 cruciform which are ubiquitous in art, architecture, and design. His works peruse an austere formalism, through which these forms undergo layered processes of abstraction. Murray’s new body of work represents the artist’s foray into colour through a minimal palette consisting of ‘chrome green’, ‘grey white’, and ‘signal black’; specific shades drawn from the RAL colour management system.

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; Rule Gallery, Denver; MoMA PS1, New York.