Context Background:
South Dublin County Council approved Council funding for a public art work for Templeogue village in early 2005. To facilitate this commission within the community the Templeogue Sculpture Committee was established in 2005. This committee comprised of County councillors, the Council’s Public Art Coordinator, Templeogue village traders and representatives from local residents associations. An open call for submissions from artists was made and Rachel Joynt won the commission to create a public sculpture for Templeogue.
Description:
Love All is a large bronze spherical sculpture about a metre in diameter, located at the entrance of the Templeogue Lawn Tennis Club. The bronze is patinated green and dramatically resembles a tennis ball from afar. Nearer to, however, the sculpture looks more like a scaled down world with tiny details of houses, roads, cars and people emerging from the textured green surface of the piece.
When coming up with the concept for Love All, Joynt was inspired by the location for the sculpture, close to the tennis club. Her idea was also greatly influenced by the significance of the Dodder River to the village. This is expressed in the sculpture where what appears to be the seam of the tennis ball turns out on closer inspection to represent the local river. The notion a globe of the world is further suggested by the fact that the piece is mounted on an axle and slowly rotates around if pushed.
Artist Biography:
Born in Caherciveen in 1966, Rachel Joynt grew up in Dublin and graduated with a Degree in Sculpture from National College of Art & Design in 1989.
Joynt’s work is predominantly site-specific; this goes for both her sand installations and public artworks.
Her installations include Selene at Project Art Centre in ’93 and Feed at Temple Bar Galleries in 1999. Her public artworks include; People’s Island (1988); Mothership at Dun Laoghaire seafront (1999); Starboard alongside the River Lagan, Belfast, (2001); and Noah’s Egg outside the Veterinary Building, UCD (2004).
Working in both gallery and public art, permanence and the transient are reoccurring themes, her use of sand, light, glass, bronze and cast iron underline this. The actual material itself can play an integral part in the concept as in her series of recent pieces using a thin screen of sand to examine a stratified landscape, scan or graph. 'Capturing layers of sand behind glass allows me to enjoy its physical and metaphorical qualities and its interplay somewhere between solid matter and liquid behavior'
Her most recent commissions include Freeflow a glass cobble, illuminated work sited intermittently underfoot from IFSC to the Point Theater in Dublin, Love All a bronze globe in Templeogue village and Guiding Star a large cast iron starfish as if dancing over the harbour wall at Port Oriel fishing harbour in Co Louth.
'For me, a successful public artwork needs to have a sense of place, a freshness, some intrigue & playfulness , a bit like a frozen moment from a daydream'.
Rachel Joynt
Commissioner Type:
Local Authority
Commissioner:
South Dublin County Council SDCC
Programme:
Other
PerCent for Art:
yes
Commissioning Process:
Two stage open competition
Funding:
Dept. of Environment Heritage and Local Government
Budget Range:
30,000 - 70,000
Project Start Date:
21/04/2006
Project End Date:
14/07/2007