Jietong Xu is a graduate of the Royal College of Art’s Ceramics and Glass program. She also holds a degree in Illustration and Visual Media from UAL LCC, where she discovered a passion for blending illustration with various materials. Xu’s work centers on bringing imagined worlds to life, using glass as her primary medium and flames as her brush.

Her work delves into object diasporas, particularly within the ceramic tradition of low-fired, coiled terracotta pots from West Africa. By drawing on craft and historical narratives, she reinterprets and energizes form and surface as a mode of storytelling and embodied practice. The vividly painted and glazed surfaces of her work, textured by hand, tools, and organic inclusions, evoke themes of labour, landscape, and the body in both expression and form.