Pinkie Maclure is a Scottish artist working in stained glass. 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.
Notable recent exhibitions include ‘The Glass Heart’, Two Temple Place, London 2024; a permanent installation at the Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, England, 2024; and ‘Lost Congregation’, a solo exhibition at CCA Glasgow 2023.
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.
As a singer-songwriter, Pinkie has also recorded 10 albums over 30 years and performed internationally.
