Re-inSpired is a group touring exhibition curated by Professor Stephen Bottomley and University of Glasgow visiting Professor Jane Milosch.
Presented are designs by eleven artists made from donated sheets of the 1960s anodised Aluminium metal cladding removed from the sculptural spire of St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow in Scotland, during its renovation in 2024.
The spire, known as the ‘Crown of Thorns’, was designed in 1964 by the British artist Geoffrey Clarke. The original gold coloured aluminium cladding recovered from the ‘Cross of Thorns’ spent over sixty years exposed to the Scottish elements and was steadily weathered, resulting in a change of patina, surface and colour. The provenance of the site’s material, history, and heritage has offered rich and fertile territory to explore diverse ideas, including value, sustainability and sense of place.
The Exhibition previewed in Munich as partly 'a work in progress' during International Jewellery Week in March 2025 at the Museum Mineralogia Münche, 13-16 March 2025.
The Exhibition returned to Scotland to be showcased with a catalogue in Linlithgow at St Michael’s church from March 29th to April 13th 2025.
These dates included ‘Earth Day’ on April 22nd 2025, when worldwide consideration of environmental and sustainability issues was encouraged, including recycling as a global concern. In celebrating this day, we partnered with the Goethe-Institut Glasgow, the Institut Français Écosse, and ClimateCulture on events that accompanied their Cultures of Action that showcased the essential role of culture in addressing sustainability challenges through film, music, performance, and events through a programme of events over an Earth Month schedule.
The Exhibition will be shown in full at the Pangolin Gallery in London from September 9th to the end of October 2025, alongside an exhibition of Geoffrey Clarke’s works from the golden age of British sculpture that demonstrate the experimentation of new materials and technologies in his creative practice. The exhibition will be on display during the London Design Festival 2025
