Rachel Joynt

She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1989 with a degree in sculpture.

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 Dublin's O'Connell Bridge.

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw[3] to make Perpetual Motion (1995),[4] 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 advert.