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©Pinkie Maclure
©Pinkie Maclure
©Pinkie Maclure
©Pinkie Maclure

Pinkie Maclure

  • Stained glass maker
  • Tayport, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Pinkie Maclure Stained glass maker
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©Pinkie Maclure

Glass that makes you gaze

  • • Pinkie has a passion for storytelling
  • • Her work reflects her life experiences
  • • She is self-taught

Pinkie Maclure found glass by chance; a friend needed help, she needed the money, and so she found herself in the studio. Initially she was frustrated by the lack of creativity, finding reproduction work somewhat meaningless. However, she was gripped by the storytelling power of medieval stained glass. She began teaching herself the skills needed to create her own work, but for her technique is only a means to an end. She wants to reach people with her art, to illicit an emotional response, to provoke and inspire her viewer. Her work has been well received, being featured in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland and shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize and Jerwood Makers.

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Works

  • ©Pinkie Maclure
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Photo: ©Pinkie Maclure
Detail of Beauty Tricks

A vividly-coloured stained glass panel made for the National Museum of Scotland, exploring notions of beauty and the beauty industry. This detail shows a stereotypical blonde madonna with a pink, blue and yellow halo of Botox needles and scalpels. Above her head is a set of gold medieval scales asking “Worth it, or not worth it?”, referring to the famous TV advert.

Length 120 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 7 cm

Photo: ©Pinkie Maclure
Fish and Chips

A classic, darkly comical British seaside scene with blue sea, green lawns and an angel in a blue-and-white stripey chip van under an orange sun. Inspired by a text from the bible, but reflecting upon global warming, terrified people are being attacked by hungry seagulls. There’s a helter-skelter, a giant Punch (the puppet) selling the bible text, a fishing boat with empty nets and gloved hands brandishing trowels, symbolising nature fighting back.

Length 90 cm
Width 80 cm
Height 7 cm

Photo: ©Pinkie Maclure
Pills for Ills, Ills for Pills

Two red figures falling downwards against a blue background in which there is hidden a huge grinning skull. Rows of white pills fall into their mouths. Beautiful, highly-detailed red opium poppies and poppy seed heads oozing opium appear in the background. The work is a protest against the increasing use of opioid painkillers.

Length 90 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 7 cm

Photo: ©Pinkie Maclure
Self Portrait Dreaming of Portavadie

The artist asleep, dreaming of a much-loved childhood haunt in Scotland which was blown up and destroyed by a government-sponsored oil company in the 1970s. There’s a red lace bedcover with a yawning cat, oil lamp, her parents in bed, her legs running across the countryside, aurora borealis and silhouetted mountains with a razor wire fence, derelict buildings, green rowan trees with red berries, graffiti and gorse bushes and a danger sign.

Length 60 cm
Width 45 cm
Height 7 cm

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