CADDY MUNNELLY                           Email, Instagram

VISUAL ARTIST 
BASED IN DUBLIN, IRELAND

Artist Bio

Caddy Munnelly is a visual artist based in Ireland. Her work expresses itself through painting, sculpture, and visual media, inhabiting the boundary between playfulness and uncanniness. 

Her practice is concerned with world-building, storytelling, and the construction of immersive, multi-disciplinary experiences. She seeks to play with the expectations of the viewer, using her work to research and push against the boundaries of narrative and form. 

Being drawn to contradiction, light against dark, satire against black comedy, wonder shadowed by something sinister, her work seeks to hold these tensions in balance, unsettling the viewer even as it draws them in.

Education

Higher Diploma in Art (NCAD)
First Class Honours
2026

Certificate in Visual Arts Practice (NCAD)
First Class Honours
2024

B.A. English Literature and Drama Studies (UCD)
Second Class Honours
2014


Exhibitions

NCADWorks 2026
The Annex, NCAD 
June 2026

Stoneybatter Art Walk
Stoneybatter, Dublin
June 2026 

Stoneybatter Art Walk
Stoneybatter, Dublin
June 2025

Emerging Artists Exhibition
Reynolds’ Art Gallery 
February 2025 

Stoneybatter Art Walk
Stoneybatter, Dublin
June 2024

CEAD Works
NCAD
June 2024


    Dune Dwellers - 2026

    Dune Dwellers is a multimedia stop-motion animation film that blends colouring pencils, oil paint, paper, charcoal, cardboard and acrylic to construct two worlds suspended between childlike imagination and absurdist abstraction. 

    The film resists easy definition. It is a fairytale and a fever dream. It is for children. It is not for children. It is for adults. It is not for adults. It is colourful and dark, playful and deeply unnerving, its essence feels like a bedtime story that curdles into something sinister. 

    The animation is accompanied by an installation designed to draw the viewer physically into its world, extending the boundaries of the screen and deepening the sense of immersion before the uncanny takes hold.





    Dune Dwellers
    Short Film 
    2026




    Image: Dune Dwellers Installation + Film
    NCAD Works 2026




    Image: Dune Dwellers Installation + Film
    NCAD Works 2026



    What To Do While Waiting For A Fish to Defrost.MOV (Instructional Video) - 2025

    Things to Do While Waiting for a Fish to Defrost.MOV (Instructional Video) is a short experimental film constructed as a collage of found media, drawn from meme culture, news footage, stock video, children's television, popular cinema, and Soviet-era animation. 

    The work adopts the flat, authoritative tone of bureaucratic instructional videos, using their rigid structure as a framework for absurdity. By repurposing familiar media fragments, the film satirises institutional forms of communication that present themselves as neutral and instructive, while often concealing contradiction or emptiness. 

    The juxtaposition of flatness and satire is used to provoke critical thinking around the voice of authority through media.



    What To Do While Waiting For A Fish To Defrost.MOV (Instructional Video)

    Short Film
    2025



    Cowspriacy - 2025

    Cowspiracy examines the environment in which conspiracy theories take root, pushing their inherent absurdity to the surface under the guise of "real truth."

    The project responds to how false narratives are believed and shared within communities, and highlights the pace and absurdity of these beliefs through the cow motif. 

    Across the resulting multimedia series, a recurring cow motif links a range of art forms: collage, paint, and mixed media, around a shared, fictional conspiracy theory, culminating in a short film of the same name as the central artwork.




    Cowspiracy
    Short Film 
    2025


    Guess Moo

    Guess Moo is an interactive artwork that captures the cows' playfulness while introducing a sense of the sinister. Painted over a Guess Who board, the work repositions its familiar elements, with the cows set at unexpected angles, to create a playful, bizarre and faintly unsettling experience for the viewer.



    Guess Moo Board Game 
    Plastic, Acrylic and Spray Paint


    Series of collages and paintings

    This series of paintings incorporates collage and mixed materials, with the materials themselves playing a significant role.

    Linking back to the theme of conspiracy, tinfoil, strongly associated with paranoia and surveillance, is used as the canvas for the work. The compositions combine the recurring cow characters with other unsettling symbols, while one painting, The Watchful Eye, is made interactive through a peephole cut into its surface. 

    A monochromatic palette is used throughout, its dark and eerie qualities lending the series a pervasive sense of unease.



    Moo-vie Time
    Acrylic paint and tinfoil on cardboard




    Now it’s a party
    Acrylic paint, collage and tinfoil on cardboard




    ‘The Watchful Eye‘
    Acrylic paint and tinfoil on cardboard