Romilly Rinck

Thank you to everyone who made it to our opening / programming last weekend! We had a thoroughly syncretic time. Syncretism was a DIY artists organised show on a shoestring for @newyorktextilemonth and we only went and bloomin did it!! Thank you so much to Jasmin Risk - couldn’t have asked for a better co conspirator / co curator. Huge thank you to all our wondrous artists of syncretic inclinations who contributed their work, time and energy into making this simmer with syncretism: @violetmenace @_harlotte_ullen @realityhasbeenpostponed @ingridluuuu @alex_dolores_ @theotrotter @jessicathiesdesigns @ollie_must_create @sts.apart @qiqing077 @nogie_ @fredaxia @fragmentario_ @amy_art_architecture @takaomakesthings @sally.jh.kong @grace_morenko @alyadoesthings @madbilly114 @leliabacchi 📸 the incredible @julianwalterphoto Dance performance by @rachelmarchica Thank you to all friends who muscled in and helped me move furniture!!

Some of the work you’ll see at Genspace Biomaterials Studios Exhibit: Creation and Destruction @farm.one tomorrow night RSVP #bioart #nyc #nycartscene

Join us at @lmcc_nyc ’s Open Studios & Public Programs on Saturday, September 27, 12–5pm, part of NYC Climate Week 2025! 🌍✨ 📣 Open Studios offers a glimpse into the creative process and artistic development of LMCC’s 19 Arts Center Residents. Explore their studios, learn about their practices and experience works-in-progress across sculpture, performance, sound, textiles and more! ✨ Additional programming throughout the day includes: Works on Water Triennial Exhibition (12–5:30pm) Sunk Shore: Understanding Climate Change, Embodying Shorelines (1pm) Artist readings + performances (2:30–3:30pm) Art, Creativity & Climate: a conversation with LMCC Artists + Stony Brook University faculty (4pm) Evening reception with live jazz (5–7pm) Ferries run regularly from Manhattan & Brooklyn Free + open to all! 🔗 RSVP link in @lmcc_nyc ’s bio Meet the Artists: Destinie Adélakun | stinieadelakun.com / @destinieadelakun Daphne Arthur | / @daphnearthurart Jessica Bardsley | / @jessicabardsley_ Noga Cohen | / @nogie_ Patrick Costello | / @_patrickcostello Jing Dong | @_jingdong Sonja John | / @sonja__jay Lola Lefrançois | / @lola.m.lefrancois Libby Mislan | / @lunaaani Raelle Myrick-Hodges | @raelleen Layla Nk | / @violetmenace Curious Orange / Claire Fleury | / @clairefleurynyc Carlos Rigau | / @carlosrigau Romilly Rinck | @rfflowerr Andreia Santana | / @andreiaapsantana Laura Chipley and Samara Smith | / Walker Tufts | / @jw4lker Lu | https://studiolu.art/ / @lu_xdyz Jaleeca Yancy | / @jry_designs

Artist Profile: Romilly Rinck Romilly Rinck is a British visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015). Working at the intersection of textiles, ecology, and heritage crafts, my process is led by material and site-based research. As an animist, I listen to stories of places and materials. Exploring healthier alternatives to petrochemical-based materials, such as root systems and bacterial cellulose, I move beyond binary distinctions between organic and inorganic, towards an ethics and agency of materials, their life cycles, and their human and nonhuman stories. Taking a decentered approach as a curator of material processes, I set up experiments where different agents interact. I see my pieces as characters in a mythology of materials. The outcomes are syncretic vessels for speculative myths and alternative cosmologies, offering fresh and remembered ways of understanding the entangled relationships between humans, the land, and the unknown. Romilly Rinck On Limuli: “Limuli embodies an ancient animist technology rooted in a reciprocal relationship with land. In pre-christian Britain, these spirals, known as ‘corn dollies’, were traditionally woven with the last sheaves of grain from the harvest to provide shelter to the “grain spirit” over winter. Hung in doorways and houses, they were believed to offer protection and luck. They were returned to the field in Spring to begin the next cycle. Here the structure is woven in aluminium and coated in a skin of bacterial cellulose. Inside nestle three Atlantic horseshoe crabs.“ 📸 @julianwalterphoto

Come and see what’s been growing in my studio at @lmcc_nyc ’s Arts Center Residency Open Studios & Public Programs Saturday June 28th, 12-5pm! I’ll be here with 19 other artists all working with themes of sustainability and urban ecology. Come chat with us! The last three photos show a monarch butterfly wing, a vacated chrysalis, and an ant. Thank you so much @sallylab for the microscope!!! 📣Open Studios offers a glimpse into the creative process and artistic development of LMCC’s artists-in-residence. 📣Participants can attend LMCC public programming & engage in conversation with 19 multidisciplinary artists in their studios. Learn about their practices and experience a wide range of artistic work in progress, from textile work, to printmaking, sculpture, social practice, writing & more. Schedule coming soon! 📍[RSVP] link in LMCC’s bio! @lmcc_nyc

I had such a joyful, and at times stressful, experience rearing monarchs! I underestimated how much milkweed the caterpillars would get through! I had to make an emergency trip to a car park in Jersey City where I had once noticed some growing. I was too late for one chrysalis which was basically sucked dry by another caterpillar. I notice milkweed everywhere now. I also lost a few caterpillars to a common bacterial infection called ‘Black Death’ - they basically turn black and deliquesce. Despite my irresponsible parenting, they still faired better than in the wild and I successfully released 11 healthy monarchs! Apparently butterflies retain some of their caterpillar memories - amazing given some entomologist argue that the difference between caterpillars and butterflies is so great that they should be classified as different species. As someone who never bought the idea that the brain generates consciousness, this fact pleases me greatly.

for @prattinstitute Earth Action Week, we led a mycelium lego workshop at @pratt.sustainability.center and it was an honor and a pleasure :) thanks to our participants for braving the rain and joining us!

✨I’m delighted to share that I’ve been selected for LMCC’s 2025 Arts Center Residency. For the next 8 months, I’ll be working at @LMCC_NYC ’s Arts Center at Governors Island alongside a cohort of 18 other artists. @destinieadelakun @daphnearthurart @jessicabardsley_ @nogie_ @_patrickcostello @_jingdong @sonja__jay @lola.m.lefrancois @lunaaani @raelleen @violetmenace @curious_orange_everywhere @carlosrigau @andreiaapsantana @walker @lu_xdyz @jry_designs Laura Chipley and Samara Smith 🌿LMCC’s 2025 Arts Center Residency offers NYC-based multidisciplinary artists a long-term space for experimentation, development, and dialogue with fellow residents. The residency supports artists whose practices explore climate justice, the environment, sustainability, and urban ecology. Excited to share more as the year progresses!

Summer 2023 I was in residence at SVA’s Bio Art Lab. I never posted about it at the time but they’re using my installation for the flyer this year so I wanted to share the work and that it was such a wonderful experience, met some amazing people, staff at SVA Bio Lab @suzanneanker @tarahhhble @wizardmutt were so supportive and made our wildest bioart dreams come true!!!

Excited to share new work (and some reorientations of old work) with my fellow artists in residence @narsfoundation curated by @joyousli Shifting /\ Gazes NARS main gallery Feb 28 - Mar 18 Opening reception 6-8pm Feb 28th

Absolutely excited for this event tomorrow, Sept 26th!! @nehabhide_ @rfflowerr

Very excited to be part of this show! Check it out if you can 🌀