Glass artist Alison Kinnaird wins 2004 Glass Sellers Award

Alison Kinnaird MBE was awarded a Creative Scotland Award by the Scottish Arts Council in 2002 which allowed her to explore ways to integrate her music and glass engraving and create Psalmsong.

Glass artist and musician Alison Kinnaird has won the 2004 Glass Sellers’ Award for her unique and innovative artwork, Psalmsong, which fuses music with glass Psalmsong, which is inspired by Gaelic psalms, is 3.1 metres long and comprises 24 panels of glass engraved with figurative images shot through with light and colour.

It recently went on display at a newly refurbished entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and will return to Edinburgh next year when it will be on permanent display in the new Scottish Parliament building.

Walter Zuber, co-ordinator for the Glass Sellers awards, said “She is driving forward the art, adding unique music to make an outstanding piece.”

Alison, who lives in Midlothian, studied glass engraving with Harold Gordon and Helen Munro Turner and is an internationally recognised glass artist.  Her contribution to art and music was acknowledged in 1997 when she was awarded an MBE.

Find out more about Psalmsong and how Alison fused her two passions to create it on the craftscotland website.