Adam Murray

Adam Murray serves as Pathway Leader for the BA Fashion Communication and Promotion and MA Fashion Image programs at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His interdisciplinary work bridges academic leadership, artistic practice, and curation with a focus on photography's role in fashion discourse.

Rooted in photographic practice, Murray co-founded the decade-long project Preston is my Paris (2009-2019), which manifested through publications, site-specific installations, digital applications, and educational initiatives. His research examines how fashion imagery constructs cultural identity and spatial narratives, particularly in post-industrial contexts like Preston, England.

Murray's curatorial practice includes significant exhibitions such as North: Fashioning Identity (Somerset House, 2018), The Accumulation of Things (Bonington Gallery, 2019), and The Time We Call Our Own (Open Eye Gallery, 2020). These projects explore intersections of regional identity, material culture, and temporal experience through fashion media.

As an established voice in visual culture, he has contributed scholarly articles to Aperture and delivered lectures at Tate Britain, The Photographers’ Gallery, and the V&A. His ongoing collaboration with photographer Jamie Hawkesworth—including the Preston Bus Station project—demonstrates sustained engagement with documentary practices in fashion contexts.