Examining our relationship with screens and their integral link to glass, Held is a blown glass camera obscura. The
relationship between the eye and the lens is reversed, decentring the viewer while the world appears inverted.
Held creates a new kind of experience of the sublime, testing the limits of perception until “fixities begin to fragment” (Morley and Blazwick, 2010).

Jo Guile (UK, 1985) is a London-based artist working with glass, light, and optics. A recent graduate of the RCA Ceramics & Glass MA (2024), her work has been shown over the last two years at London Glassblowing, Pumphouse Gallery, Mint Gallery, Blowfish Gallery, and the International Festival of Glass. She has presented at the Colour and Poetry Symposium at UCL in 2023 and 2025, and presented a paper at the Society of Glass Technology.

Work on display:
Held I
Blown glass, Jesmonite, steel
45 x 45 x 168 /180 cm (adjustable)

https://www.joguile.com