Michael Dwan is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with themes of mortality, memory, belonging and time, reconciling the autobiographical with the collective through work grounded in photography. While the image remains central he investigates the medium’s potential beyond the representational, distinguishing between ‘reality’ as the observable world and ‘real’ as a deeper subjective truth. A period of unlearning at the RCA marked a shift towards abstraction, allegory and performance. Dwan works across media including photogrammetry, printmaking, moving image, painting and sculptural form to extend symbolic resonance and material presence. He is developing work on ritual, time and Irish temperate rainforests as living archives of memory and climate fragility, and holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.