Frank Sweeney

Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research based practice, using found material to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound.

Recent work includes Few Can See (winner of Tiger Shorts Competition International Film Festival Rotterdam, Second Diamond Award at Alcine 53 Alcalá de Henares, Special Mention at the Filmadrid Awards, screened May-August at Anthology Film Archives NYC 2024, commissioned by EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial), People enjoy my company (Best Documentary at LUFF Switzerland, IMMA 2021-22, Transmediale Berlin, BFI Southbank LSFF 2022) and Made Ground (collaboration with Eva Richardson McCrea, Temple Bar Gallery 2021, purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2021).

Recent awards include the Common Ground MARKING 25 commission, Three Year Studio Membership at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, the Arts Council's Next Generation Award and the aemi+Sirius Film Commission 2022. Frank’s recent work is distributed by Video Data Bank in the U.S.