Pinkie Maclure
Contemporary Artist, Singer,
Stained Glass Artist
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.
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.
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.
Pinkie makes large architectural installations and smaller, highly-detailed light boxes.
Please enquire for a list of available works.

Photo Victoria Murray

