Rachel Joynt

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Rachel Joynt
Born1966 (age 5859)
NationalityIrish
Education National College of Art and Design
OccupationSculptor
Father Dick Joynt
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Perpetual motion

Rachel Joynt (born 1966 in Caherciveen, County Kerry) is an Irish sculptor who creates public art. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1989 with a degree in sculpture. [1]

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Her father, Dick Joynt, [2] was also a sculptor. Rachel Joynt is preoccupied by ideas of place, history and nature, and her work often examines the past as a substrate of the present. Her commissions include People's Island (1988) in which brass footprints and bird feet crisscross a well-traversed pedestrian island near O'Connell Bridge in Dublin. She collaborated with Remco de Fouw [3] to make Perpetual Motion (1995), [4] a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway. This has been described by Public Art Ireland as 'probably Ireland's best-known sculpture' and was featured, as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin, in The Apology, a Guinness beer advertisement. Joynt also made the 900 underlit glass cobblestones which were installed in early 2005 along the edge of River Liffey in Dublin; many of these cobblestones contain bronze or silverfish.

Works in collections and on display

Noah's Egg, outside the Veterinary Sciences Centre in University College Dublin Noahs Egg by Rachel Joynt.jpg
Noah's Egg, outside the Veterinary Sciences Centre in University College Dublin
Mothership Sculpture at the coastline in Glasthule, Dublin Glasthule workOfArt with James Joyce Tower.JPG
Mothership Sculpture at the coastline in Glasthule, Dublin
A brass light standard hung with casts of fish, fruit and vegetables
RTE radio show about Perpetual Motion
Clare Library historical webpage
Press release describing Noah's Egg
Press release describing the Rachel Joynt cobblestones

Homepage of Rachel Joynt

References

  1. "Rachel Joynt, Irish Artist: Biography". www.visual-arts-cork.com. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. "Sculptor in stone who likened his patient craft to prayer". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  3. "Wexford Campus School of Art Design Staff" . Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. Public Art Ireland. "Perpetual Motion".
  5. Public Art Ireland. "Mothership" . Retrieved 22 October 2021.