Miriam Sweeney is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Other than a recent two year spell in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, Sweeney has lived for most of her adult life in Dun Laoghaire. Prior to that she had a nomadic childhood that included living in what was then Persia.
Sweeney is a graduate of the Dun Laoghaire Institute Art Design & Technology – in 1991 she graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art and in 2007 with a BA (Hons) Visual Art Practice.
She was a key organiser for Anaesthetic Intervention (2009) – an exhibition in public and vacant spaces in Dun Laoghaire, by the now defunct artist collective Sodium. Her partner Michael O’Sullivan - an artist who played a formative role in the development of contemporary art in Ireland - is a Joycean enthusiast and in 2009 they organised a multi-media ‘postcard’ exhibition 16-6-'09, held in Copenhagen.
In 2008 Sweeney was short- listed for overall winner of DLR Visual Open Submission and in 2011 she won a Saatchi Online Showdown Tournament. Her work Subversion was selected to be the representative image for Musica Festival International Strasbourg 2011. In 2016 Sweeney was involved in a collaborative project Interaction and her work, along with her collaborator (Sandra Schoene) was highly commended.
Sweeney’s work is in many private collections throughout Europe and America and the work Subversion is part of the Saatchi Gallery Collection.
Sweeney is a graduate of the Dun Laoghaire Institute Art Design & Technology – in 1991 she graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art and in 2007 with a BA (Hons) Visual Art Practice.
She was a key organiser for Anaesthetic Intervention (2009) – an exhibition in public and vacant spaces in Dun Laoghaire, by the now defunct artist collective Sodium. Her partner Michael O’Sullivan - an artist who played a formative role in the development of contemporary art in Ireland - is a Joycean enthusiast and in 2009 they organised a multi-media ‘postcard’ exhibition 16-6-'09, held in Copenhagen.
In 2008 Sweeney was short- listed for overall winner of DLR Visual Open Submission and in 2011 she won a Saatchi Online Showdown Tournament. Her work Subversion was selected to be the representative image for Musica Festival International Strasbourg 2011. In 2016 Sweeney was involved in a collaborative project Interaction and her work, along with her collaborator (Sandra Schoene) was highly commended.
Sweeney’s work is in many private collections throughout Europe and America and the work Subversion is part of the Saatchi Gallery Collection.