Analysis of Ciara Reilly’s Work
ANALYSIS OF CIARA REILLY’S WORK Heresy of Witchcraft ABSTRACT This project examines death as a transformative force in witchcraft and pagan traditions, where it is embraced rather than feared. Ciara highlights women's roles as life- bringers and wisdom-keepers within covens, addressing the historical suppression of women labelled as "witches." Through her ambiguous and paradoxical art, she questions historical narratives and memory, inviting viewers to confront stigmas around death and femininity while celebrating the enduring legacies of those obscured by history. Ciara Reilly This current project delves into death’s omnipresent yet invisible force, presenting it as both everlasting and burdensome. In my exploration, I am personifying death not as a finality but as an enduring and intrinsic part of existence, especially within the realms of witchcraft, paganism, and other earth-centred spiritual practices. Here, death is not an end but a transform...