{{Short description|Irish sculptor (born 1966)}} {{more footnotes needed|date=June 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2021}} {{infobox person |name=Rachel Joynt |birth_date={{birth year and age|1966}} |birth_place=Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ireland |education=National College of Art and Design |occupation=Sculptor |father=Dick Joynt }} [[File:IMG 3570w.JPG|thumb|right|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rachel Joynt, Irish Artist: Biography|url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/irish-artists/rachel-joynt.htm|access-date=2021-10-22|website=www.visual-arts-cork.com}}</ref>
Her father, Dick Joynt,<ref>{{cite news|title=Sculptor in stone who likened his patient craft to prayer|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sculptor-in-stone-who-likened-his-patient-craft-to-prayer-1.351508|access-date=2021-10-22|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=22 October 2021|title=Wexford Campus School of Art Design Staff|url=https://www.itcarlow.ie/courses/department/wexford-campus/school-of-art-design/art-design-staff.htm#Remeco%20de%20Fouw}}</ref> to make ''Perpetual Motion'' (1995),<ref>{{cite web|last=Public Art Ireland|title=Perpetual Motion|url=https://www.publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/perpetual-motion/39afc02cb1261d74831890c7b3e709e7/}}</ref> 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== [[File:Noahs Egg by Rachel Joynt.jpg|thumb|right|Noah's Egg, outside the Veterinary Sciences Centre in University College Dublin]] [[File:Glasthule workOfArt with James Joyce Tower.JPG|thumb|right|Mothership Sculpture at the coastline in Glasthule, Dublin]] * ''People's Island'' (1988) on the pedestrian island south of O'Connell Bridge, Dublin * A pavement piece depicting Viking crafts, outside Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. * ''Solas na Glasrai'' (The grocers' light) corner of Moore Street and Parnell Street, Dublin. :A brass light standard hung with casts of fish, fruit and vegetables * ''Perpetual Motion'' (1995) (with Remco deFouw) Naas bypass, County Kildare. :[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622100730/http://www.rte.ie/radio1/rayoflight/1036713.html RTE radio show about ''Perpetual Motion''] * A marble seat with an inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in Ennis. :[http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/library/history/colibser.htm Clare Library historical webpage] * ''Noah's Egg'' (2004) University College Dublin Veterinary School, Belfield, Dublin :[http://www.ucd.ie/news/jun04/sculpture.htm Press release describing ''Noah's Egg''] * A series of underlit glass cobblestones along the Liffey campshires (2005). :[https://web.archive.org/web/20041206112522/http://www.ddda.ie/cold_fusion/news/press_releases/press_releases2.cfm?counter=120 Press release describing the Rachel Joynt cobblestones] * ''Love All'' (2007) in Templeogue village, Dublin *''Mothership Sculpture'' at the coastline in Glasthule, Dublin<ref>{{Cite web|last=Public Art Ireland|accessdate=22 October 2021|title=Mothership|url=https://publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/mothership/6865ebc75cbe91a0ca198e02327e8cbe/}}</ref> * ''Shutter'' outside the Irish Film Institute, Dublin <ref> {{Cite news |last= Lanigan |first= Michael | date= 22 November 2023 |title= Brushing Up: the kerbstone carvings of Temple Bar|url=https://www.dublininquirer.com/brushing-up-the-kerbstone-carvings-of-temple-bar/ |work= |location= |publisher= Dublin InQuirer |access-date=12 August 2025}}</ref>
==External links== [http://www.racheljoynt.com/ Homepage of Rachel Joynt] ==References== {{Reflist}} *Judith Hill (1998), ''Irish Public Sculpture''. Dublin: Four Courts Press. {{ISBN|1-85182-274-7}}. *[http://www.artpack.ie/artists.html Short biography linked to this page about a charity ''artpack'']
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