Rachel Joynt is an Irish sculptor

Sculpture

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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 in 1989 with a degree in sculpture.

Rachel Joynt is preoccupied by the historical texture of place and in her work she often seems to expose or memorialize 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

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. She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas

Naas

Naas is the county town of County Kildare in Ireland. With a population of just over twenty thousand, it is also the largest town in the county. Naas is a major commuter suburb, with many people residing there and working in Dublin...

 dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness

Guinness

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 advert. She made the 900 underlit glass cobblestones which were installed in early 2005 along the edge of Dublin's Liffey river; 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, Co. Kildare.

RTE radio show about Perpetual Motion

• A marble seat with inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in Ennis
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Clare Library historical webpage

• Noah's Egg (2004) University College Dublin
  University College Dublin
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   Veterinary School, Belfield, Dublin

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 Glasthule
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  , Dublin