Jillian Murphy is an artist whose practice focuses primarily on painting and who explores themes relating to time, identity and hauntology, and addresses concepts of presence and absence. Figures appear in mirrors, behind screens, or partially obscured, their identities fragmented. Through her work she considers the idea that anything can become a type of spectre, and that an object, an action, a whisper or a flash of light can all leave a permanent trace on time. She maintains that the act of painting is a purposeful and personal exercise in pinning time down, a form of possessing time in order to make the impermanent permanent.