Sophia Rosenthal London, United Kingdom

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Sophia Rosenthal was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024, and won The Judith Tucker Memorial Prize selected by Lubaina Himid, Griselda Pollock and Harriet Tarlo. Graduating with a Distinction in MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School, Sophia subsequently won the Standpoint Artist Residency Prize 2024 which culminated in a solo show, 'Golden Hour' 2025.

Inspired by lost and rediscovered childhood photographs, my work contemplates the notion of belonging and moments that hang uncertain - within time, memory, and culture. Creating intimate fragments, I use painting as a language and vehicle for exploring the complexity of memory in relation to belonging, identity, and lived experience. Through glazing, layering, and masking - slow, materially driven processes, I bring out feelings of uncanny familiarity and displacement, to conceive of memory not as something static or necessarily in the past, but as impressions that continue to unfold.