Pinkie Maclure

Individual

Tayvallich

Website

https://www.pinkiemaclure.net/

pinkiemaclure@gmail.com

Pinkie Maclure is a Scottish artist who grew up on the north-east coast. She was a prolific child artist, but a chauvinistic art teacher knocked her confidence so much that she gave up art until she was in her forties. She focused on music instead, recording many albums, but eventually financial hardship led her to a job with a friend who made traditional stained glass windows, mainly replicas of Victorian front doors.
Stained glass drew her back to art. Dismayed by the commissions she was asked to at work and excited by the dazzling, storytelling power of medieval stained glass, she decided to develop her painting and engraving skills. In 2012, she began to make exclusively personal work to display in light boxes, telling contemporary stories which link the characters of the past with the big issues of today. Her work been subsequently been shown in a wide range of exhibitions and awards include the John Byrne Prize, the Sequested Prize, Jerwood Makers and the John Ruskin Prize shortlist.
In 2020, the National Museum of Scotland acquired 'Self-Portrait Dreaming of Portavadie', a piece about the destruction of Portavadie for the oil industry in the 1970s and in 2024 the National Stained Glass Museum in Ely acquired 'Beauty Tricks', a darkly humorous critique of the beauty industry.
Her solo exhibition ‘Lost Congregation’ took place at CCA Glasgow in 2023, consisting of 3 rooms of stained glass, film, performance and 3D sound. The show attracted record numbers to the venue.

My Showcase

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