Rich McCoy

I’m a New Zealand-based mythopoetic artist and writer working across sculpture, painting, installation, and lamentation. My practice explores ritual, memory, and the symbolic cost of modern life. Living off-grid has reshaped how — and why — I make: I work with found materials, industrial remnants, and natural relics to create objects rooted in archetype, dream, and personal mythology.

Before all this, I was a creative director and digital product lead in the global advertising world — now I build reliquaries, write lamentations, and record long-form conversations with artists beneath an oak tree in the corner of a paddock. Much of my work is available for exhibition or sale — because even mythopoetic dads need to keep the fire lit and the kids fed.

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