Pinkie Maclure grew up on the north-east coast of Scotland. As a performer and songwriter Maclure has recorded ten albums in a career spanning over thirty years. In 2000 she began working with architectural stained-glass windows and was 'drawn to the strange beauty and storytelling power of medieval stained glass.’ Since 2013, Maclure has focused on her personal work, bringing a world of expression and social conscience to her chosen discipline.
Maclure’s desire to ‘tell stories, tackle thought-provoking, contemporary subject matter and link the characters of the past with her own neighbours and adversaries’ creates exquisite and provocative work, full of human insight.
Exhibitions
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly 2024
'The Glass Heart', Two Temple Place, London Jan-April 2024
The John Rusking Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf London February 2024
'Lost Congregation' CCA Glasgow Solo Exhibition and Installation June 16 - Sept 9 2023
Craftspace UK touring exhibition Dec 2021 -2022.
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Scotland 2022
Michelangelo Foundation in Fondazione Cini, San Maggiore, Venice, Italy 2022.
Collect, Somerset House, London 2022
An Tobar Arts, Tobermory, Isle of Mull 2021
Northlands Creative, Caithness 2020
Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay 2019-20
'A Unique Vision - Outsider and Self-Taught Art'
Henry Boxer, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London 2020
The John Ruskin Prize 2019 Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester 2019
Henry Boxer Gallery at Outsider Art Fair New York January 2019
UK National Centre for Craft & Design 2018/19.
National Museum of Scotland 2018
Henry Boxer at Outsider Art Fair New York 2018
Perth Museum and Art Gallery 2017
Henry Boxer at Outsider Art Fair New York 2017
Outside In, Pallant House, Chichester, UK, touring 2016 - 2017
Birnam Arts UK 2016
Scottish Glass Society Edinburgh 2015
Public Art Installations
'Dwelltime', Dodworth Railway Station, 2020
Charles Kennedy MP Memorial Window, Caol Church 2016
Tree of Life windows, Muirhead Church Dundee 2013
The Family, Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh 2011
Awards
Joint winner of the Sequested Prize for self-portraiture 2022
John Byrne Award for Skill & Artistry 2020
Shortlisted John Ruskin Prize, 2019
Shortlisted Jerwood Makers 2018
Zealous Emerge Craft Prize 2018
Shortlisted Saltire Society Crafts Award 2015
Shortlisted Fergusson Art Prize 2014
Shortlisted Jerwood Makers 2013
Collections
Pinkie Maclure is represented in private and public collections including the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
TV
BBC Scotland 'Loop' 'Pictures That Tell a Story' April 2019
Radio
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour interview on crafts and mental health 2015
Press
Stained Glass Association of America Quarterly feature April 2024
Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review 2022 and 2024
Mosaic and Glass magazine 5-page feature 2022
West Deutsche Zeitung 2022
Artmag front cover 2022
Hi-Fructose 2018
Glass Network 2017
Brut Force 2017
The Times 2017
Hyperallergic 2017
Craft Magazine 2017
Raw Vision 2017
Artnet 2017
Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review 2014
Education
Birmingham University BA Hons Theatre Performance and Design 1983