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Pinkie Maclure comes from 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 after 25 years, she fell into a job helping a friend who made stained glass windows.  Pinkie become fascinated by ancient church glass.  She decided to reinvent it as a contemporary art form by sidestepping the commissioning process and making autonomous light boxes.  

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She developed multiple skills to make layered work that references folklore, tabloid newspaper headlines and personal experiences.  ​​

Pinkie has recorded 10 albums over 30 years and is now combining her stained glass work with sound, to create profoundly immersive installations.

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​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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