∴ABOUT∴
∴IRENE SWEENEY∴

Irene Sweeney is an artist currently based in and from Donegal, Ireland
The immersive paintings that she creates are inspired by the local woodlands vast array of enigmatic species of fungi.
Her work has strong contrasts of dark and light in both ambient tranquil lighting, capturing a particular mood of a time and place, and within the eco-psychology, eco-spirituality and trauma studies theory behind her work.

⦿ Here lies the doorways to other worlds and still moments through luminous ambient sunrays of painted colour. ⦿

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 With a specific focus on Fungi, my most recent body or work
researches how Wim Zweer’s theory of “unio mystica” (a sense of unity with nature) may be
implemented in the healing of trauma, while challenging human-centric ideas of species hierarchy.
My practice implements this mode of participation and encounter with fungal hidden underworlds
of local woodlands and forests through primal exploration, photography, and slow looking, when
recapturing the affective magic of these environments and enigmatic fungal growths through paint.

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