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. She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness 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.
- A marble seat with inset bronze book at the Clare library headquarters in Ennis.
- Noah's Egg (2004) University College Dublin Veterinary School, Belfield, Dublin
- A series of underlit glass cobblestones along the Liffey campshires (2005).
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