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Rachel Joynt
Rachel Joynt (born 1966 in Caherciveen, County Kerry) is an Irish sculpture, 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'' (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 to make ''Perpetual Motion'' (1995), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Caherciveen
Cahersiveen (), sometimes Cahirciveen, is a town in the south-west of Ireland, in County Kerry. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 1,297. Geography Cahersiveen is on the slopes of 376-metre-high Bentee, and on the lower course of the River Ferta. It is the principal settlement of the Iveragh Peninsula, near Valentia Island. The town is 50 km west of Killarney. History Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ring fort, holy well, ring barrow, and castle sites in the townlands of Cahersiveen, Garranebane and Carhan. These include the stone forts of Cahergall and Leacanabuaile, which stand close to each other a short distance from the town. The ruins of Ballycarbery Castle, a 16th century tower house that was extended into an L-shape plan, are also nearby. In 1597, the Iveragh estate was received by Trinity College, Dublin as part of a royal grant. It previously belonged to the Earl of Desmond. The 8,808 acre estate stretched from Killo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
