Kendall Sweeney, “Di-d”: Opening Reception

 July 5, 2025

Join UHA and Kendall Sweeney in celebrating the opening of her newest exhibition, “Di-d” (Dad), by Kendall Sweeney!

Based on the west coast, Kendall Sweeney is a Newfoundland artist with a practice grounded in photo-realism drawing and installation. Sweeney graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) (2022) and has returned to campus to complete a Bachelor of Business Administration (expected 2027). Sweeney has exhibited at the Rotary Arts Centre’s Tina Doltar Gallery in the duo show slip into something a little more comfortable. Her exhibition Di-d (Dad) at Union House Arts will mark her first solo. Sweeney renders the content of her work with true-to-life qualities, relying on scale, shading, and installation strategies to transform mundane objects into charged moments for audiences to experience and interpret. Each mark is made with consideration for the object’s composition and the emotion it carries.

Di-d (Dad) is a culmination drawings of wishing stones created by Sweeney during her residency at Union House Arts in August of 2024. The work examines the tradition of the wishing stone and it’s significance to Sweeney’s childhood memories with her father, Angus Sweeney.

To learn more about the exhibition read here.

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