Jemima Murphy (b. 1992, London) is a London based artist. Murphy graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2023, and was a student at Sotheby's Art Now: Contemporary Art since 1990 course in 2022.
Identifying her works as reimagined landscapes, Murphy draws on the physicality of paint to examine and portray her own emotional experience. Reflecting the sublime and its qualities within the natural world, each painting is an abstracted realm of colour and space. Colour is used as a vocabulary within Murphy’s paintings. She describes colour as ‘an energy that’s similar to an adrenaline rush’. Contrasting vibrant and dark hues evoke fleeting moments of revelation in her works.
For Murphy, the act of painting is a personal activity. During intense bursts of energy, she works instinctively and often across multiple canvases at once, each work built up in a series of layers. Immediacy and movement are fundamental to her practice. Inquiring into the nature of paint itself, her colours are mixed both on palettes and directly on her canvases. She employs myriad techniques in which the medium is poured and dripped in washes as well as applied in urgent, rhythmic strokes.
Solo exhibitions include; Finding June, Victoria Miro Projects, Online (2024); Tempest EDJI Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023). Duo exhibitions include; Tracing (duo show), Victoria Miro and Anat Ebgi, Anat Ebgi Gallery, LA, USA (2025). Group exhibitions and fairs include; The Armory Show, NY, (2025); Frieze LA Galleries Together, Victoria Miro (2025); Dallas Art Fair, Anat Ebgi, (2025); Miart Fair, Milan, Victoria Miro, (2025); A New British Modernity, Burberry Seoul Flagship, Seoul, Korea (2024); Untitled Art Fair, Victoria Miro Projects, Miami Beach, (2024); lbf @ the lake, lbf contemporary, Muskoka, Canada (2024); Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction, Almine Rech, New York, USA (2024); In The Know, Show, Green Family Art Foundation, Texas, USA (2024)
Her work has been acquired by various public and private collections including UBS collection, Ligabue Foundation, Venice, Italy; Green Family Art Foundation, Texas, USA; The Nixon Collection, London, UK; The Scalpel Building Collection, London, UK and Midas Collection, Los Angeles, USA.