Ciara Callaghan is a self taught, multidisciplinary artist based in the UK.
Her work explores the material as a gateway to the immaterial, drawing inspiration from objects and practices used in ceremony and ritual. Ciara reimagines these for a contemporary society, examining their historical uses and reinterpreting their significance today. Ciara’s current work focuses on objects associated with divination and apotropaism (the use of magic and ritualistic ceremony to anticipate and prevent evil,) investigating how these practices persist in modern culture and the purposes they now serve.
Ciara's practice includes sculpture, writing, photography and installation.
Ciara has been a natural dyer in practice and in teaching for a decade. Her zine ‘Slow Grown-Plants, Folklore and Natural Dyeing’ Is available to purchase at Common Threads Press and is sold internationally in major art and textile institutions as well as independent bookshops.