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. Deignan's videos, text and photographic works are concerned with the construction of representation. The works draw on forms of documentary, often setting them askew, combining them with fictions, or placing their apparent authority under scrutiny. 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. Her 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; 'Based on a True Story', Artsway, UK; 'Film Programme 1', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; 'Black Box Programme' at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

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