Michelle Deignan

Posted by Michelle Deignan

March 8th

published on : May 26, 2025

Single channel HD video, 2 mins 16 secs, 2021

First published in March 2021

How is the weather?

published on : May 22, 2025

Single channel HD video, 51 secs

First published in February 2024

March 8th

published on : May 22, 2025

Single channel HD video, 2 mins 16 secs, 2021

First published in March 2021

Attractor

published on : July 16, 2024

Single channel HD video, 2 mins 12 secs, 2024

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Biography

Michelle Deignan is an Irish artist and filmmaker based in London. She makes moving image, photographic and print works, for gallery exhibition, for cinema and for other screening contexts. These works critically examine the production and dissemination of culture now and historically, touching on subjects such as local and international identity, nationalism, feminism, class politics and aesthetics. Many of her works have looked at the depiction and comprehension of public space and landscape.

Michelle’s work has been screened and exhibited in international venues such as Whitechapel Art Gallery; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Tramway, Glasgow; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Media Art Lab, Moscow; Irish Film Institute, Dublin; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Crawford Gallery, Cork; Konstall Malmo; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and CAN, Neuchatel. Her work has been supported by Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland, Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust. Her moving image work is distributed by LUX.