He was also an amateur artist, painting abstractlandscapes, his work appearing from 1958 in the annual exhibitions of Living Art and at the Paris Biennale in 1960; he represented Ireland at the 1962 UNESCO Convention of young painters in Paris and won the Carroll Prize for Painting in 1965 and 1969.[6]
Sheridan also worked in Australia for many years, and was Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide from 1975 to 1980 and won the emeritus medal of the Australia Council for the Arts in 1994.[10]
Personal life
Sheridan was married to Liz Murphy;[11] they had 5 children. He died in 2006.[1]Paul Durcan wrote a poem in his honour after his death.[12]