Jo Guile is a visual artist who has a multi-disciplinary practice which includes installation and sculpture and uses glass techniques, such as blown-, cast- and flame-worked glass, to break down and reform light in site-specific or stand-alone works.

 Examining our relationship with screens and their integral relationship with glass, she sometimes utilises glass’s unique relationship with light – sometimes posing the question ‘how does this align with digital technology’ – particularly in the breakdown of colour, and sometimes using glasses’ qualities to replicate and explore screens that happen in nature. By shifting materiality these ways, her work can hold on to moments that are otherwise lost or unseen opening up of a virtual elsewhere as well as a virtual elsewhen.

Jo Guile studied MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art, 2019-2024. Prior to her MA, she studied Fine Art, Sculpture, University of Brighton, 204-2007. In between these periods where she continued to develop her artistic practice, she initially worked as a fine art fabricator for artists, including, the Chapman Brothers, Anish Kapoor, Michale Landy, Rachel Whiteread and Richard Wilson. Subsequently, she has diversified into teaching and has taught technically at the RCA, Central St Martins, Chelsea College of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art since 2017 as a Sculpture Technician. While at the Slade, she has worked collaboratively with a number of academics and scientists notably Dr Emily Patterson, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, on the RGB East collaboration funded by UCL’s Trellis Bursary Programme. In 2023, she was awarded a scholarship by the RCA the Charlotte Fraser Price to attend a Summer School Programme at the Pilchuk School of Glass, USA; was selected via peer review to present a paper at the Society of Science and Glass’s annual conference, Cambridge 4th-6th September, and was invited by Professor Jo Volley to convert her presentation at the ‘Colour and Mind’ symposium 2022 as a chapter for the event’s edited collection. And has been selected to have her work displayed at the International Festival of Glass 2024, ‘Glass Beginnings’ …Graduates of 2024. 17th August to 1st September, Stourbridge UK.