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" I can't get enough of Scottish artist Pinkie Maclure's stained glass works"

 Brian Boucher, ARTNET 2025​​

"It’s both monumental and irreverent, elevating the humble....while thumbing its nose at the grandiose history of the medium ."   Susan Mansfield****Scotsman 2023

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Pinkie Maclure (b. Edinburgh, 1961) is an artist and musician.

Initially making conventional stained glass windows purely to support her music career, she became frustrated by the blandness and lack of meaning in most contemporary stained glass.   Drawing on the dark, chaotic beauty of medieval and renaissance cathedral glass while subverting its religious baggage, she now makes allegorical light boxes, 3D sound installations, performances and stained glass sculptures.

Pinkie’s first solo exhibition, ‘Lost Congregation’, took place at CCA Glasgow in 2023.  ‘The Soil’, her 3m x 2.5m stained glass installation celebrating urine-stimulated compost-making to save the earth’s vanishing soil, dominated the main gallery, transforming it into a church haunted by its lost congregation. The show featured a 3D sound installation written by Pinkie and Scotland’s first (and only) live ambisonic performances, created and performed by Pinkie with sound scenographer John Wills.

Pinkie’s first solo exhibition in England, ‘Earthly Spirits’, took place in Spring 2026 at East Quay Watchet, Somerset.

“Beauty Tricks” (2017) explores the beauty industry. It won the Zealous Craft Award and was acquired by the National Stained Glass Museum, Ely in 2024.

‘Pills for Ills, Ills for Pills’ won the 2020 John Byrne Award for its portrayal of opiate addiction.

‘Self-Portrait Dreaming of Portavadie’ (2019), held in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Scotland, recalls childhood summers spent at her grandfather’s cottage in a remote corner Argyll, a much-loved place that was blown up and obliterated by a government-sponsored oil company when she was 11.  This early awakening to humanity's destructive abilities still informs much of her work today.

Pinkie lives and works in an extended caravan in the Scottish rainforest.
 

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