Rachel Joynt
Rachel Joynt 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.
Her father, Dick Joynt, 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 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 to make Perpetual Motion, 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
People's Island on the pedestrian island south of O'Connell Bridge, Dublin- A pavement piece depicting Viking crafts, outside Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.Solas na Glasrai corner of Moore Street and Parnell Street, Dublin.Perpetual Motion Naas bypass, County Kildare.
- A marble seat with an inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in Ennis.Noah's Egg University College Dublin Veterinary School, Belfield, Dublin
- A series of underlit glass cobblestones along the Liffey campshires.Love All in Templeogue village, Dublin
- Mothership Sculpture at the coastline in Glasthule, DublinShutter outside the Irish Film Institute, Dublin