Projects
Mindscapes
CEJA Mental Health in Agricultural & Rural Areas Exhibition
2023
STAM Europa, Brussels, Belgium.
FARMRes “Farmers Assistance Resources for Mental Resilience” is an Erasmus+ project aiming to raise awareness and capacity for farmers to cope with mental health issues. Under the coordination of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), FARMRes embraces the primary objective to contribute to destigmatize and open a societal debate over mental health challenges among the farming community.
Exhibitions
Mindscapes
CEJA Mental Health in Agricultural & Rural Areas Exhibition
2023
STAM Europa, Brussels, Belgium.
Young Belfast Artists
2023
Artisann Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K
Emerging Artists
2022
Artisann Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K
XII
MFA Degree show
2022
Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K
Concurrence
2022
Queen Street Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Polyphony 21
2021
Queen Street Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Graduates Show
2020
The MAC Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Emerging Artists,
2020
Artisann Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.
High Contrast
2018/19
Goose Lane Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.
End of Year Show
2018
North West Regional College, Derry, Northern Ireland, U.K.
ɪˈklɛktɪk
2018
The Playhouse, Derry, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Súile Na nÓg
2013
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland.
Education
Masters of Fine Art
2022
Ulster University, Belfast
Bachelors of Fine Art
2020
Ulster University, Belfast
Higher National Diploma in Fine Art
2018
North West Regional College, Derry
Awards
CEJA Exhibtion Selection
2023
CEJA - European Council of Young Farmers
Artisann Emerging Artist's Exhibition Award
2022
Ulster University
Artisann Emerging Artist's Exhibition Award
2020
Ulster University
Freddie Clifford Award
2018
North West Regional College
Nicola Nixon Art Award
2016
St Columba’s College.
Artist talks
Affectivity and encounters with fungi
2021
Ulster University Belfast.
On Not Being able to Speak
2021
Ulster University Belfast
The Presence of Absence,
2020
Ulster University Belfast.
Beneath the surface
2019
Ulster University Belfast.
Publications
Mindscapes
CEJA Mental Health in Agricultural & Rural Areas Exhibition
2023
Social media post.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ceja-european-council-of-young-farmers_mindscapes-mentalhealth-ruralcommunities-activity-7082289791911743488-vt4_
Young Belfast Artists
2023
Exhibition Catalogue
ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K
Young Belfast Artists
2023
ArtisAnn Gallery website publication
https://artisann.org/collections/young-belfast-artists
Emerging Artist's Exhibition Launch
2022
Arts Diary
Ulster Tatler, October 2022 edition
Emerging Artists 2022
2022
ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVV6Y8EJH7g&ab_channel=ArtisAnn
Emerging Artists 2022
2022
ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast
Visual Artists Ireland exhibition publication
https://visualartists.ie/events/emerging-artists-2022-group-exhibition-at-artisann-gallery/
Emerging Artists 2022 Exhibition
2022
ArtisAnn Gallery website publication
https://artisann.org/collections/emerging-artists-2022
MFA Final Show 2022
2022
MFA Fine Art Belfast blog feature
https://mfabelfast.wordpress.com/gallery/mfa-final-show-2022/mfa-2022-irene-sweeney/
Concurrence
2022
MFA Belfast blog Exhibition publication
mfabelfast.wordpress.com/gallery/concurrence-mfa-interim-show-at-qss-belfast-jan-2022/
ArtisAnn
2022
ArtisAnn Gallery website featured artist
artisann.org/collections/irene-sweeney
Lulling the Restless
2021
Dwell Time Press publication
dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/lulling-the-restless-by-irene-sweeney/
MFA Culture
2021
Polyphony 21 Exhibition publication
www.facebook.com/artistslegup/posts/2548870342086090
Polyphony 21
2021
MFA Belfast blog Exhibition publication
mfabelfast.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/mfa-1st-year-end-of-year-show-at-qss-polyphony-virtual-access-and-then-physical-access-planned-from-25th-may-subject-to-hse-covid-regs/
Polyphony 21
2021
featured in exhibition website artist's archive
polyphony21.wixsite.com/my-site/irene-sweeney
Graduate Show at The MAC
2020
featured in Culture Night Belfast
youtu.be/jNh_OTf9_BQ
Irish Arts Review, New Generation Gallery
2020
www.irishartsreview.com/new-generation-artist-work/irene-sweeney/
Emerging Artists 2020 Exhibition
2020
MFA Fine Art Belfast blog feature
mfabelfast.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/emerging-artists-exhibition-mfa-recent-and-current-students-at-the-artisann-gallery-opens-tue-1st-sept/
Emerging Artists
2020
ArtisAnn website publication
artisann.org/collections/emerging-artists-2020
Emerging Artists
2020
Exhibition Catalogue
Belfast School of Art
2020
Instagram feature for ArtisAnn Award
The painting Corner 2020
2020
thepaintingcorner2020.wordpress.com/irene-sweeney/
Belfast School of Art Class of 2020
2020
BA (Hons) Fine Art, painting publication
www.bsoa2020.com/painting-1/irene-sweeney
ɪˈklɛktɪk
2018
Exhibition catalogue