Sophia Masters

Shape of a Second, 2026

OIL ON CANVAS
30.5 × 61 cm
$1,300
Shape of a Second considers intimacy as something fleeting and unresolved. Situated at the threshold between one moment and the next, the work explores the liminality of memory—where gestures blur, time slips, and presence begins to give way to absence.
Sophia Masters is a Sydney-based artist working primarily in figurative oil painting. Exploring intimacy, memory and the body, she is inspired by observations of daily life and drawn to fleeting moments of connection that linger between presence and absence.
National Emerging Art Prize