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.

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 has been presented as part of the John Ruskin Art Prize, where she was awarded Highly Commended, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Guile was also commended in the CGS Glass Sellers New Graduate Review (2024

Her awards include the Charlotte Fraser Price (RCA, 2023), a grant to attend Pilchuck Glass School (USA, 2023), and funding from UCL, including the CHE EDI Small Grant (2025) Trellis  and Beacon Bursary (2020–2021). Her research-led practice 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(2023; 2025), Guile is an associate member of the Royal College of Art’s Materially Engaged Research Cluster (MERC).