Mixed Media

Aden Senycia

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.

Artist Profile

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. He recently completed a 15-metre-long mural at the iconic Mamma Chens in Footscray, where other examples of his work grace the walls.

Artist Interview

What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?

I don't have any allegiance to a specific medium, they are all just tools to get to the place in my mind. I feel comfortable with aerosol and most things oil-based.

How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?

I have multiple pieces scattered around my studio space with notes of what parts are drying and how long they've been drying for. I work fast but use mediums that require patience. I trust that a piece will eventually reach a place where it speaks back to me and requests an outcome, sometimes I have the skill and frame of thinking to get it there, this is what becomes exhibition worthy.

Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?

My studio space is in Footscray, Melbourne on a busy communal street. I get to dog sit a tiny cute chihuahua named Rocky when I paint. I read books out the front, talking to passerbys in between my long hours of painting.