Contemporary Visual Artist

SHANE
MASTER

Art • Emotion • Human Experience

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MAMA’S DAILY ROUTE

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Oil on Canvas • 35 × 27 cm • 2023

The route taken by our mothers during our coming-of-age years was filled with thrills, landscapes, obstacles and natural disasters, but they never gave up.

$555

TZS 1,500,000

LONER

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Acrylic on Canvas • 29.7 × 21 cm • 2025

Night is when the artist enters his own zone, where music, food, smoke and aged wine let worry, trauma and pain disappear for a while.

$210

TZS 550,000

SOPHIE

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Charcoal & Graphite on Paper • A4 • 2017

A dreamlike portrait about surrendering control beneath a gaze and trying to hold onto its softness before waking.

$100

TZS 250,000

KIDOTI

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Charcoal & Graphite on Paper • 29.7 × 21 cm (A4) • 2017

Siku ya kwanza kukuona, KIDOTI chako kilinivutia na kuteka macho yangu.

$100

TZS 250,000

FADING FASHION

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Oil & Acrylic on Canvas • 20 × 20 cm • 2023

A reflection on rural-to-urban migration and the changing cultural identity of the Maasai.

$200

TZS 500,000

03 — The story behind the work

MAMA’S DAILY ROUTE

Oil on Canvas • 35 × 27 cm • 2023

Available$555

The route taken by our mothers during our coming-of-age years was filled with thrills we see in movies, landscapes that can make you feel lost and give up in life, obstacles, immortality and natural disasters.

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MAMA’S DAILY ROUTE

Oil on Canvas • 35 × 27 cm • 2023

$555

TZS 1,500,000

Available

LONER

Acrylic on Canvas • 29.7 × 21 cm • 2025

$210

TZS 550,000

Available

SOPHIE

Charcoal & Graphite on Paper • A4 • 2017

$100

TZS 250,000

Available

KIDOTI

Charcoal & Graphite on Paper • 29.7 × 21 cm (A4) • 2017

$100

TZS 250,000

Available

FADING FASHION

Oil & Acrylic on Canvas • 20 × 20 cm • 2023

$200

TZS 500,000

Available

ALICE

Charcoal & Graphite on Paper • 21 × 30 cm (A4) • 2017

$100

TZS 250,000

Available

BODY RIPPLES

Acrylic on Canvas • 8 × 7 cm • 2025

$40

TZS 120,000

Available

Shane Master working on a portrait in his studio

About the Artist

SHANE MASTER is a contemporary visual artist whose practice is rooted in the exploration of human experience, identity, emotion, perception, and the stories that exist beneath the surface of everyday life.

Working across painting and mixed-media approaches, Shane Master approaches art as both a visual language and a form of inquiry. The work is driven by an interest in translating intangible experiences—memory, emotion, tension, connection, isolation, desire, transformation, and self-perception—into physical forms that invite the viewer to pause and interpret.

Rather than treating an artwork as simply an image, Shane Master considers each piece a conversation between the artist, the subject, and the person standing before it. Layers, gestures, contrasts, texture, composition, and symbolism become tools for communicating what words cannot always express.

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06 — My Art

I create what words cannot always say.

I believe art begins where ordinary language starts to fall short.

A feeling can be difficult to explain. A memory can change every time we revisit it. An experience can remain with us long after the moment itself has passed. I create to give these invisible things a physical presence.

My work explores the relationship between identity, emotion, perception, memory, and human experience. I am interested in the spaces between what we reveal and what we conceal, between how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others.

I approach each artwork as an exploration rather than a fixed answer. The process allows ideas to evolve through composition, texture, gesture, color, symbolism, and material. Sometimes the original intention changes as the work develops. I welcome that transformation because the artwork becomes more than an execution of an idea—it becomes a record of the journey itself.

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