McSweeney, Seán

Sean McSweeney (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1935) is self-taught as a painter.

 

He began exhibiting work regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas and had his first solo exhibition in the Dawson Gallery in 1965. A retrospective of his work was held in 2007 in the Model, Sligo, the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork and the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan. Previously in 1990 Galway Arts Festival organised a retrospective exhibition of his work, which travelled to the Royal Hibernian Academy's Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. He had recent solo shows in the Vanguard, Cork (2005), The Kenny Gallery, Galway (2004); and John Martin Gallery, London (2003). Major group exhibitions include ‘Celtic Triangle’ (1971); ‘The Delighted Eye’, Earlham Street Gallery, London (1980); 14th ‘Cagnes-Sur-Mer Painting Festival’ (1985); ‘Contemporary Artists from Ireland’, Austin Desmond Fine Art Gallery, London (1990); and ‘Painting Landscape’, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast (2001).

 

His work is included in the public collections of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon; Trinity College Dublin; Limerick City Gallery; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Ballinglen Arts Foundation; and the Boyle Civic Collection.

Sean McSweeney (b. 1935, d. 2018) was a self-taught painter and was elected a member of Aosdána in 1984. He began exhibiting work regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas and had his first solo exhibition in the Dawson Gallery in 1965. A retrospective of his work was held in 2007 in the Model, Sligo, the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork and the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan. Previously in 1990 Galway Arts Festival organised a retrospective exhibition of his work, which travelled to the Royal Hibernian Academy's Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. He had solo shows in the Vanguard, Cork (2005), The Kenny Gallery, Galway (2004); and John Martin Gallery, London (2003). Major group exhibitions include ‘Celtic Triangle’ (1971); ‘The Delighted Eye’, Earlham Street Gallery, London (1980); 14th ‘Cagnes-Sur-Mer Painting Festival’ (1985); ‘Contemporary Artists from Ireland’, Austin Desmond Fine Art Gallery, London (1990); and ‘Painting Landscape’, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast (2001). His work is included in the public collections of Trinity College Dublin; Limerick City Gallery; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.