Dick Joynt

Dick Joynt

Dick Joynt was born in Dublin in 1938. He worked in the Dublin Art Foundry from 1972 until 1982 and later settled in Enniscorthy with his family where he worked full time as a sculptor until his death in 2003. His sculpture has been described as having references of pre-Columbian and Polynesian art but with a distinctive Irish finish characterised by full curvilinear forms, mainly in stone or wood. He is one of Ireland’s most successful public artists and completed many public commissions including The Ram, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Bust of Micheal Collins, Merrion Square, Dublin, and Earthmother at Dublin Airport. Joynt exhibited widely during his lifetime including several solo exhibitions such as a retrospective of painting and drawing at Éigse 2004, Wexford Art Centre, 2004, and Kilcock Art Gallery, 1993. Group exhibition shows include Opera Festival Show, Kellys Resort Hotel, Rosslare, 1992-2000, Aer Rianta, Gateway to Art, 1999, RHA Banquet Exhibition, 1996. His work is held in many public and private collections including A.I.B Bank; Allied Investment Bank; Kildare County Council; Central Bank; Bank of Ireland; Aer Rianta, Dublin; National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick.

Dick Joynt exhibited in Éigse annually from 1982-1992 inclusive.

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Origins

Set up in 1992, The Carlow Art Collection is a voluntary community initiative that has been surrounded by goodwill and generosity from the people of Carlow. It has expanded into a diverse collection of work with artists from around the world. CAC became a fully registered charity in 2018. The home of our art collection is in Carlow College. The Carlow Art Collection is free to view in the front halls of Carlow College, Monday to Friday, and in the garden every day of the year.

Today

The art works in the permanent collection include painting, print, drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, live art, film and activism, with more to come. The collection and CAC projects reflect a broad range of art by over thirty artists, many of whom visited, exhibited, engaged with or lived in the area.

Our Goal

The CAC is deeply indebted to the artists who contribute to the collection, to its board members past and present, and to the many people and organisations that support it technically and financially. The Carlow Art Collection will continue to expand on the ideas of what art is and what an art collection can be, and become.