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*''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.
RTE radio show about ''Perpetual Motion''
*A marble seat with inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in
Clare Library historical webpage
*''Noah's Egg'' (2004)
Press release describing ''Noah's Egg''
*A series of underlit glass cobblestones along the Liffey campshires (2005).
Press release describing the Rachel Joynt cobblestones
*''Mothership Sculpture'' at the coastline in
Short biography linked to this page about a charity ''artpack''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Joynt, Rachel Irish sculptors People from County Kerry Irish women artists Living people 1966 births
County Kerry
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) is an Irish sculptor
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who has created some prominent Irish public art
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. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin
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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'' (1988) in which brass footprints and bird feet criss-cross a well-traversed pedestrian island near Dublin's O'Connell Bridge
O'Connell Bridge () is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, which joins O'Connell Street to D'Olier Street, Westmoreland Street and the Dublin quays, south quays.
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The original bridge (named ''Carlisle Bridge'' f ...
. She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make ''Perpetual Motion'' (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas
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The name of Naas has been recorded in th ...
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
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advert. Joynt also made the 900 underlit glass cobblestones which were installed in early 2005 along the edge of Dublin's River Liffey
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; many of these cobblestones contain bronze or silver fish.
Works in collections and on display
*''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.RTE radio show about ''Perpetual Motion''
*A marble seat with inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in
Ennis
Ennis () is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in County Clare, with a population of 25,27 ...
.Clare Library historical webpage
*''Noah's Egg'' (2004)
University College Dublin
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Veterinary School, Belfield, DublinPress release describing ''Noah's Egg''
*A series of underlit glass cobblestones along the Liffey campshires (2005).
Press release describing the Rachel Joynt cobblestones
*''Mothership Sculpture'' at the coastline in
Glasthule
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Amenities
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, Dublin
References
*Judith Hill (1998), ''Irish Public Sculpture''. Dublin: Four Courts Press. .Short biography linked to this page about a charity ''artpack''
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