Alira Callaghan doesn't know if she is making art anymore. She has moved to South Korea, has a toddler, and finishing her PhD has left her confused about the nature of making artwork. Craft with her daughter is currently fulfilling enough. Their work considers the meeting point of humans and the materials mass produced for their daily life. These relationships are explored through installation, sculpture, video, artist books and site specific occurrences.

Alira completed a practice-led research PhD through Curtin University where they extended these interests to consider how art as research is conducted in the context of new materialist positionings with the nonhuman, and what the outcome of such a project can be within institutional conceptions of contemporary art.