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1935 Dublin, Ireland - 2018. Known for: Landscape painting, abstract.
Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935). The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives.... Read full biography
Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935). The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives. Despite not attending art college or taking any classes in painting, he began exhibiting his pictures... Read full biography
Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935). The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives. Despite not attending art college or taking any classes in painting, he began exhibiting his pictures regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament. McSweeney has also had five one-man shows at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin (from 1965 until 1977),... Read full biography
Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935). The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives. Despite not attending art college or taking any classes in painting, he began exhibiting his pictures regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament. McSweeney has also had five one-man shows at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin (from 1965 until 1977), ten solo shows at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, and numerous others at the Kenny Gallery in Galway, Vanguard Gallery in Cork and at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast. McSweeney participated in many group exhibitions of Irish painting including:... Read full biography
Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935). The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives. Despite not attending art college or taking any classes in painting, he began exhibiting his pictures regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament. McSweeney has also had five one-man shows at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin (from 1965 until 1977), ten solo shows at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, and numerous others at the Kenny Gallery in Galway, Vanguard Gallery in Cork and at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast. McSweeney participated in many group exhibitions of Irish painting including: Celtic Triangle (1971); The Delighted Eye, Earlham Street Gallery, London (1980); 14th Cagnes-Sur-Mer Painting Festival (1985);... Read full biography
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Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935)
The Irish landscape artist Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. He lives and works in Ballyconnell, Sligo, from where most of his artistic inspiration derives. Despite not attending art college or taking any classes in painting, he began exhibiting his pictures regularly in the 1960s, in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament.
McSweeney has also had five one-man shows at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin (from 1965 until 1977), ten solo shows at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, and numerous others at the Kenny Gallery in Galway, Vanguard Gallery in Cork and at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.
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