Artist Michelle Deignan was born in Ireland in 1970 and graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1992 with a BFA in Sculpture. She has since completed postgraduate studies at the School of Media and Imaging in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee, Scotland, and at the Visual Arts Department of Goldsmiths College, London.

Michelle Deignan's art is concerned with the complexities of the mediation of our experiences, culture and politics through representation. The narratives these works present are multifarious, often combining personal anecdotes, contemporary socio-political information, political and cultural histories with prosaic or seemingly irrelevant observations. Recent artworks consider legacy and interpretations of romanticism in relation to the representation of location, character and event.

Deignan's work is represented by Maria Stenfors, London. Her first solo show at the gallery 'Posing as a subject amongst subjects' took place in 2011. She has also exhibited her work in over 50 national and international exhibitions and festivals including: 'New Work UK - Trust Yourself', Whitechapel Gallery, London; 'Europart - New Contemporary Art from Europe', Vienna; 'transmediale.08', House of Cultures, Berlin; 'Sunday Screening', Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; 'Film Programme 1', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; 'Black Box Programme' at the Edinburgh Film Festival.