“To follow Murphy’s art…is to experience an adventure in looking. Every work is closely observed and argued: real objects, no cameras, no shortcuts. She paints reality as a place of layers to be excavated, and of veils and barriers to be peered through.” Justin Paton, Artist Profile, 2024 This September, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, presents recent works by Catherine Murphy (b. 1946, Cambridge, MA), marking the artist’s second solo exhibition in London.