Art Form tours are led by RHA Academy members, and each tour focuses on a specific art form in the exhibition.
Born in 1966, Rachel Joynt RHA grew up in Dublin and currently lives and works in the Blackstairs Mountains, Co Carlow. Joynt was elected full member of the RHA in 2005.
She exhibits regularly at the Solomon gallery, RHA Annual, including a solo show in the Ashford RHA Gallery in 2013. Many of her large public artworks are highly visible such as Mothership Dun Laoghaire seafront and Noah’s Egg on UCD campus. In 2016 Rachel was awarded a major public artwork for Áras an Uachtaráin to commemorate the 1916 Rising – Dearcán na nDaoine/The People’s Acorn. A recent commission Keepsake, inspired by the native Irish Strawberry tree was launched in Sept 2019 in Lansdowne Pl, Dublin, on a location that once was the Trinity College Botanical gardens. She is currently working on a large sculpture Síol/seed for Glencar House on Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin and has just completed working on a coastal Commission for school in East Cork ÉIST/ listen, Scartleigh NS, Saleen , Co Cork. Rachel features as a guest Artist in current series for RTE programme The Works with John Kelly. Rachel was elected to Aosdána in 2021.
Whether it is a large public art piece or a series of more intimate gallery pieces , gathering facts, microscopic images and learning a species quirky habits are all part of the unfolding of a body of work. Using these ‘hidden’ species as a vehicle, Joynt tries to explore poetic links and interpretations of wealth and provoke a more ancient thought process, allowing room for open-ended interpretations.
Image: Rachel Joynt RHA, Attune o2, exhibited in the 194th Annual Exhibition, 2024, Image courtesy of the artist.