Negative Ground IV
Negative Ground IV
£2,200.00
Guile’s work examines our relationship with screens and their integral relationship with glass. In Negative Ground IV, Guile explores ‘screens’ that happen in nature, such as water changing a road surface to a reflective mirror.
Taking casts of the ground – cracked pavements, contrasting textures – in urban environments, Guile creates work where all of the detail from the grounds’ texture is highlighted as light hits the surface. By shifting materiality, these works can hold on to moments that are otherwise lost or unseen.
When a viewer looks at the work, they are represented within it, through their distorted image.
Jo Guile studied MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art, 2019-2024, and Fine Art, Sculpture, University of Brighton, 2004-2007. She 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. The works shift materiality by allowing viewers to pose questions such as ‘how do they align with digital technology or with nature’? or to hold moments that are otherwise lost or unseen, opening up a virtual elsewhere as well as elsewhen.
