Michael Thomas Murphy (b. 1983, Ireland) is a London-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, ceramic, and porcelain wall reliefs. He earned his BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Dun Laoghaire IADT and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art.

Murphy’s practice navigates the threshold between digital immediacy and material presence. Beginning with drawing as a foundation, his work distills everyday encounters into delicate gestures—compressed, abstracted, and rhythmically layered. These drawings often evolve into ceramic and porcelain wall reliefs, where the drawn mark is translated into sculptural form.

Flattened perspectives, refined palettes, and an emphasis on surface invite the viewer into a dialogue between the familiar and the abstract. In these works, digital saturation refracts into tactile subtlety: every ridge, silhouette, and negative space becomes a site of sensory engagement.

Murphy’s work is not concerned with reproducing the digital world, but with exploring how it is absorbed by the body—registered as pulse, memory, and rhythm. His abstractions function less as concealments than as invitations: to pause, to look again, and to inhabit the image through presence and perception.