Jo Guile

Email:jo.guile@network.rca.ac.uk

Social media Links:
@jo.guile
https://www.joguile.com

Jo Guile is a London-based multidisciplinary sculptor and Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Her practice 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, posing the question ‘how does this align with digital technology’, particularly in the breakdown of colour, and using its properties to replicate and explore screens that occur in nature. By shifting material in these ways, her work holds moments that are otherwise lost or unseen, opening up a virtual elsewhere as well as a virtual elsewhen.

Recent exhibitions include the Stanislav Libenský Award (Prague Gallery of Czech Glass, 2025–2026), Venice Glass Week, HUB, Design Biennale (2025), Mirage (London Glassblowing Gallery, 2025), Granite and Rainbow (Slade School of Fine Art, 2025), Spring Tide and BOUNDLESS (Mint Gallery, 2025–2024), Glass Beginnings (International Festival of Glass, 2024), and Colour Made Manifest (Pumphouse Gallery, London, 2024).
In 2026, Guile’s work was presented as part of the John Ruskin Prize at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where she was awarded Highly Commended, and she was also commended in the CGS Glass Sellers New Graduate Review (2024).
Her awards include the Charlotte Fraser Prize (RCA, 2023), a grant to attend Pilchuck Glass School (USA, 2023), and UCL funding including the CHE EDI Small Grant (2025) and Trellis and Beacon Bursaries (2020–2021). Her research has been published in Colour Made Manifest (2025) and Colour and Poetry (2023; 2025), and she has presented at the Society of Glass Technology Conference (2023) and UCL’s Colour and Poetry symposium.