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Pinkie Maclure grew up in a small fishing town in the north-east of Scotland

A prolific child artist, she was discouraged by a bullying art teacher and switched to music as a career, but despite critical acclaim, was unable to earn a  living.  After 25 years of low-paid jobs, she found work helping a friend who made stained glass windows.  It wasn't very creative - they did repairs or offered the manual skills to realise customers' own ideas. Pinkie grew frustrated but also fascinated by historical stained glass.  She decided to reinvent it as a contemporary,  secular,  allegorical art form by sidestepping the commissioning process and making autonomous light boxes, like glowing paintings.  

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She developed her painting, sandblasting and engraving skills in order to make complex, darkly humorous work that explores many of the pressing issues of today.  References include folklore, tabloid newspaper headlines, bible stories and personal experiences.  

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As a singer-songwriter, Pinkie has recorded 10 albums over 30 years and performed internationally.

​For her 2023 solo exhibition at CCA Glasgow, 'Lost Congregation',  she combined large-scale stained glass with 3D sound, film and live performance,  to create a fictional, abandoned rural chapel, haunted by its lost congregation,  to question our relationship with the land and to celebrate the way nature and grassroots activism, such as compost-making, can reclaim abandoned places. 

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Pinkie makes large architectural installations and smaller, highly-detailed light boxes. 

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Please enquire for a list of available works.

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