Sea Urchin sculpture Dun Laoghaire Ireland Rachel Joynt

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Mothership, by Rachel Joynt, Dublin

At the N7, County Kildare, Ireland

Visual Artist

This 8.5 metre long ship outline is made of translucent blue cobbles surrounded by a cast iron frame. The cobbles have starfish embedded within to suggest sea and sky and are lit from underneath with fibre optic lighting. Rachel Joynt was born in County Kerry in 1966. She has a degree in sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She has been involved in the creation of many public artworks in Ireland including People's Island, Dublin Millennium Sculptural Symposium…

Arc Hive by Rachel Joynt-2003- Pearse Street Library.The bee,honeycomb and its gathering and storing activities are an appropriate symbol for a library Three 1.1m x 1.1m hexagonal cast iron grids bedded into the entrance foyer house honey amber glass cobbles.The cobbles are embedded with Irish type face letters that appear like speckled powdered pollen.

Rachel Joynt