Oil on Canvas and Beads

19cm x 56cm

About the artwork:

These seven oil and oil pastel paintings mark a fragile, edifying transition in my life. In mid-2025 I made a big life change out of necessity, moving from my beloved Footscray to be with my parents at their home in Perth.

I’d been struggling with a condition called ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) for many years. A condition that had come to require family support for even the most basic household tasks.

Coming to terms with ME, an ongoing (likely lifelong) project forced me to evaluate every part of life as I had only a small percentage of energy compared to pre-illness.

What is really important to you?

Who is really important to you?

If you had only 45 minutes per day to do something, what would it be?

Thinking takes energy, what would you like to think about?

Well it turned out painting was my answer to many of these questions, working 10 minutes at a time with hours of rest in between. Painting helped me to translate, anchor and explore my grief, values and stories. These 7 works document my transition and radical acceptance of my situation. I see them as hope manifest, the outward symbol of a forcibly cultivated inner world that is determined to not give up.

About the artist:

Aden Senycia is a mixed media artist and music producer who fuses colour with kinesis, collaging abstract shapes, textures, and experiments in formalism with graffiti, which was his first passion. Aden examines and attempts to contain universal emotional complexities, impossible worlds and the purgatory of desire through the lens of colour and shapes.

A third-culture kid with strong ties to the Ukraine, Aden spent his formative years in Oman in the Middle East, which established a lifetime quest for identity and belonging. Through his own profound sense of displacement, pursuit of community and quest for solace, he creates a spiritual home for both himself and the viewer in his compositions. Aden successfully held his first solo art exhibition ‘Sharp Love, Slow Faint’ in mid-2023, at shopfront 740 in Melbourne, Australia.

His second solo exhibition ‘Free Spirit, Trauma and Economy’ was held in early 2025 at Brunswick Street Gallery. Recently his work graced the walls of the Abbotsford Convent as part of ´Lost In Translation’ and was part of a 3 month residency at Howler in Brunswick (November 2025).