Trióna Sweeney, MFA Painting NCAD, BA Art EDUCATION NCAD

Trióna Sweeney is a visual artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland. 

Her work is held in many private and corporate collections including the Irish State Art Collection, The Bank of Ireland, McNally Design International, PEI Dublin, and multiple corporate and private collections. 

The current work draws on the concept of non-place, of the ‘in between’. Observing landscapes and features from several different places, she recrafts, recasts, and reimagines them through the drawing and painting process. The gestural compositions depict a journey. They nod towards a place, no place, anyplace; to familiar yet ambiguous and at times unsettling places. The loci of such (non)places are never specified. Rather, these are interstitial landscapes marked by human intervention. They are mundane but comfortably familiar, spaces where the human meets the natural world. These places are unpopulated, but are humanised by a structure or other feature that suggests habitation.

The paintings’ deployment of diaphanous translucent oil veils imply something seen or half-seen. The substance of the painting dictates where the nuance lies and where meaning might be found.

Trióna established Sandymount School of Art in 2007 and relaunched it as, artschool by Trióna Sweeney in 2023. Alongside her professional practice she mentors and coaches the development of an international community of painters from her Dublin base.