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. Her works examine the representation of facts and fictions, drawing on a wide a range of interests such as satirical comedic forms, political ideologies and autobiography.

Her video, digital and photographic works have been exhibited in various 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.

Deignan has been living in London since 1998 and has worked as a film and script editor on numerous documentaries, films and artists' video and film projects. She is currently a part time visiting tutor at The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford.