BIO
Renia Lakomy is an abstract artist based in Perth, Western Australia.
Her work is shaped by movement - across countries, across years, across the changing terrain of her life. Time spent living in Europe, alongside a life of travel, has left an imprint on her practice: a sense of drift, displacement, and return that echoes through each painting.
Her work emerges through layers - of paint, of memory, of lived experience. Using primarily oils and oil sticks, Renia builds surfaces that are worked and reworked, marked and softened, holding traces of what has been and what remains. These accumulations mirror the passage of time itself, particularly the quiet yet profound shifts of ageing and menopause, where identity is not lost but reshaped.
Ageing and menopause sit at the center of Renia’s work as states of transformation rather than diminishment. This phase of life is approached as a reckoning - where cycles shift, heat rises, and the body insists on being heard. There is no attempt to smooth or soften the experience. Instead, the work claims this threshold as a site of authority, where accumulated knowledge replaces performative softness and presence becomes unmistakable.
Menopause emerges not as an ending, but as a recalibration - of energy, of identity, and of creative power
OYSTERS
Alongside her abstract practice, Renia's oyster-themed works explore notions of value, protection, and quiet sensuality. The oyster operates as both form and metaphor: a hardened exterior holding something luminous and hard-won within. Layered surfaces echo shell, sediment, and tide, while restrained palettes are punctuated by moments of lustre and intensity. The oyster becomes a symbol of maturity and self-possession - beauty shaped by pressure, time, and resilience.