James William Murray
United Kingdom °13051988
research interests: Expanded Photography, Sculpture, installation, Painting, desire, The Desired Body, Body, The embodied experience of the art object, studio based practice
affiliation: University of Brighton
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b.1988
lives/works Brighton UK.
The work of James William Murray takes the photographic as a critical concept for thinking through a interdisciplinary studio-based art practice, centred around the problem of representing the desire body.
Underpinned by this conceptual framework is an ongoing reflection upon the materials and processes involved with the production of work itself. Here Murray proposes an analogy between the notion of desire as a self-perpetuating drive and his studio practice, in which one body of work acts as the catalyst for the next, forever shifting in pursuit of its unobtainable object.
Murray received his MA in photography from the University of Brighton in 2015 and has since exhibited in the UK and internationally. His work is in the collection of the Hellenic Centre For Photography and private collections throughout Europe. In 2016 he co-founded Niagara Falls studio and project space with colleague Martin Seeds in Brighton UK. He is represented by Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art in Knokke-Heist, Belgium.