Ciara Callaghan is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the relationships between people, place and the more-than-human world. Working with materials, making, folklore, superstition and archives, her practice explores how stories, beliefs and local knowledge shape our understanding of place. Working across studio and community settings, she uses shared making and material exploration to bring people together and strengthen connections with their surroundings and one another. Her studio practice focuses on creating objects that act as future archives, holding traces of everyday rituals, stories and lived experiences. Through her work, Ciara explores how ordinary materials and practices can reveal wider cultural histories and identities, connecting people to the past, the present and the environments they inhabit.
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.