Moira Sweeney: Curriculam Vitae
Address2 Morehampton Terrace, Dublin 4
Phone+353 1 660 2314 mobile: +353 86 607 2101
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Education
2010-2014PhD in Cultural Theory and Social Documentary Practise, Dublin Institute of Technology
1994-1995MA Television Drama – Goldsmiths University of London
1994-1996BA Honors Fine Art - Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic
1981-82Foundation Art & Design - North Staffordshire Polytechnic
Key Broadcast Credits
2005-2010Laochra Gael, Nemeton for TG4Director
2009Teens in The Wild, Firebrand for RTÉDirector
2009Cósta Uí Catháin, Independent Pics for TG4Director
2008Imeall Geal, Big Mountain for BBCSeries Producer
2007Feud, Independent Pics for RTÉDirector
2006Cártaí Poist, Adare for TG4 Producer/Director
2003-2006An Tuath Nua, Independent Pics for RTÉDirector
2002Frois Frais, RTÉSeries Producer
2001-2002Léargas, RTÉ Producer/Director
1999-2001Spórtiris, RTÉ Producer/Director
1996-1999Cúrsaí Ealaíne, RTÉ Producer/Director
1994Coming Home for Channel Four Producer/Director
1990Imaginary, ZDF Producer/Director
Distinctions
2009Teens in the Wild: Nomination for TV Now Awards
2004Laochra Gael: Shortlist Best Documentary -Boston Irish Film Festival, Nomination for Irish Film and Television -Best Sports Documentary
2004 Léargas - Na Caitlicigh is Fearr:
Radharc Nomination for Best Documentary
2003Léargas: Irish Film and TV Academy Nomination
2000Cúrsaí Ealaíne : Irish Film and TV Academy Nomination
1990Imaginary: Cork Film Festival - Merit
1989Imaginary: Retina Film Forum, Hungary -
Honorary Screening
Awards, Commissions, Sponsorship
2008Tree Council Of Ireland and OPW:
Solo Photographic Exhibition - Crann Beatha
2005TG4 Commission for Oirialla
2000Arts Council of Ireland/Tinahely Courthouse Centre:
Solo Photographic Show - Gold and Blue
2000Wicklow County Council Arts Fund:
Photographic Series – Communion
1996Arts Council of Ireland/ Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Tyrone Guthrie Centre – Artist Residency
1995Banff Centre For the Arts, Canada:
Re-Telling Tales- Artist Residency
1995Fuji Film Production Award for The Gift
1994Channel Four Artist Film Commission - Coming Home
1991North West Arts (England): West Africa
1990Arts Council Of England: Artist Film Award -Coming Home
1990Trondheim College of Art, Norway- Artist Residency
1990 British Council Travel Awards: Philippines, Brazil, Norway, USA, France, Switzerland, Norway
1989British Council Travel Award: Hungary
1988British Council Travel Award: Yugoslavia
1987British Council Travel Award: Hungary
1988Arts Council Of England: Artist Film Award -Imaginary
1987Arts Council Of England:
Artist Film Award - Message from Budapest
Solo Photographic and Film Exhibitions
2008Crann Beatha Photographic Series:
Airfield Trust, Dundrum
Enfo, Dublin
Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
JFK Arboretum, Wexford
Leixlip Library, Co Kildare
2000Gold and Blue Photographic Series:
Signal Arts Centre, Bray
Ardowen Centre, Enniskillen
Clotworthy Art Centre, Antrim
Tinahely Courthouse Centre, Co Wicklow
1999Lúnasa Photographic Series:
Brownes, Sandymount
Escape, Bray
Bray Arts Club, Bray
1995Film Retrospective
Banff Centre For the Arts, Canada
1988Film Retrospective
Zagreb Center Za Film
Belgrade Studenski Center
1985Film Retrospective
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Selected and Group Exhibitions/Festivals
2004Boston Irish Film Festival
2003First Wicklow Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
2002Christmas Crackers - Signal Art Gallery, Bray
ART+action, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2000Glendalough Visitors Centre, Bray Arts Club
1996L’Alternativa, Barcelona
1994Galway Film Festival
British Short Film Festival
1990-92ICA, London; Yokohama Museum, Japan; Berlin Film Festival, Manila Super 8 Film Festival; Melbourne Film Festival; Bonn Experi; San Francisco Art Institute Cinematheque; Hallwalls Art Centre, Buffalo; Millennium, New York; Tokyo Image Forum; Lightcone Paris; Viper, Lucerne; Osnabruck; Edinburgh Film Festival; Paris Rencontres
1989International Experimental Film Congress, Toronto
World Tour: Erotic Films by Young European Women
1988Oberhausen Film Festival; British Art Show, Vienna
Madrid Experimental Film Festival
1987London Film Festival; British Avant Garde- Musarnak Museum, Budapest
1986Light Years, London Filmmakers Coop
Off The Map, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Feminale, Germany, Tokyo Image Forum, Japan
1985Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, York College of Art Foyer Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic
1984Sheffield Expanded Media Show; Leicester Super 8 Festival; The Basement, Newcastle Upon Tyne
1984Foyer Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Public Collections
Arsenal, Berlin
Yokohama Museum, Japan
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
San Francisco Canyon
Photographs held in private collections in England, Ireland, France, USA
Lecturing in Film & Photography
2006-2010Waterford Institute of Technology: Postgraduate in TV
1996-99Performing Arts Centre, Dublin
1996Trinity Arts Club, Trinity College, Dublin
1990North Staffordshire Polytechnic
Birbeck University of London
Trondheim Art Academy, Norway
1986-1987London Filmmakers Coop
London Irish Womens Centre
1985-86Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Gateshead MBC
Artists Film Curation and Television Production
2003-2010Independent Producer/Director:
Teens for Firebrand; Imeall Geal for Big Mountain; Cartaí Poist for Adare; Laochra Gael for Nemeton; Feud, An Tuath Nua and Oirialla for Independent Pictures
1996-2002RTÉ Producer and Director - Features and Irish Language:
Big Science, Léargas, Cúrsaí Ealaíne, Spórtiris,
1986-94Artists Film and Video Curator for Arts Council of England, London Filmmakers Coop and British Film Institute
Published Photographs
2003-2004Stinging Fly, Feasta, the sHop
2000-2002Freacneac Mearcair & Scuais
1984-85Undercut, Iron
Published Writings
2005From Lahas to Riverstown, the sHop, Summer Issue
2003Sirin Nesat at IMMA, Bray Arts Journal
1999Poetry
1991Light Years Ahead – Contemporary Avant Garde Film
The Film and Video Umbrella, Arts Council/BFI, Autumn
1990Signs of the Times - Contemporary British Film & Video Art, Undercut, Issue 19, Autumn, pp 36-40
and ICA Biennial of British Film and Video Art
1990Towards a New Erotica : Cross Currents in Culture
Variant, Issue 7, p. 50
1988 An Eye for Ireland Ireland: Independent Irish Film
Independent Media, Jan, Issue 73, pp 20
Selected Reviews
2009Teens, Irish Times, Irish Independent
2006Cartaí Poist, Foinnse
2003 An Tuath Nua, Irish Times
2003/2004Laochra Gael, Irish Times, Foinnse
2002‘Sé Seo m’Oileán, Irish Times, Foinnse, Sunday Times,
Sunday Independent
2002I Dream of Jeannie, Sunday Tribune
2001An Fhírinne Faoi Cheilt, Sunday Times
2000Lúnasa Photographic Exhibition, RTÉ Guide
1999Cúrsaí Ealaíne, RTÉ, Sunday Business Post
1998Safe Harvest, RTÉ, Sunday Tribune
1997Dorothy Cross on, Cúrsaí Ealaíne, Sunday Business Post
1994Coming Home, Time Out, The Guardian, Film Ireland
1990Imaginary, San Francisco Bay Reader, Variant, Village Voice, City Limits, Performance, Undercut, Art Monthly, Time Out, ICA Biennial
1987-90Hide and Seek, Art Monthly, Independent Media, Rote, Kusse, Paris Rencontres
1990Looking For the Moon, Paris Rencontres, San Francisco Bay Reader