Triona SWEENEY Now, I see a startlingly changed... Lot 171

Triona SWEENEY Now, I see a startlingly changed future coming towards us at a rate of knots, 2023 Framed oil on linen 40 x 40 cm Extract from Neil Hegarty's essay Klondike' from Impermanence The places represented in Triona Sweeney's work are inspired by the concept of the non-place, the "in-between". They emphasize the sense in which the final composition is the result of accretion and fusion: observing landscapes and features from many different places, and reshaping, recasting and reimagining them through the process of drawing and painting. The intimate gestural compositions depict a journey. Rather, they are interstitial landscapes marked by human intervention. Spaces where the human meets the natural world. These places are uninhabited, but anthropomorphized by the artifact of habitation. In this sense, his work is concerned with the subjectivity of the perception of space itself. And, by considering the role and significance of non-places, she puts forward an emergent understanding of these spaces.