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Go Back Home

Tess Pirrie

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I am an artist born in Glasgow, making work responding to ideas of place and memory.

I am an artist born in Glasgow, making work responding to ideas of place and memory.

Go Back Home (2025). 201x128x86cm. Steel, glass, monofilament, acrylic, amethyst, rose quartz, sodalite, and oil paint.

Final work

A colourful beaded curtain hanging from a steel arch, depicting hills and a grassy plain.

Go Back Home

Go Back Home (2025) is a suggestion of a doorway into another space, somewhere you want to walk through but can't. Go back home, whether in your mind or physically.

A woodcut print of a hill, grass in shadow, and heather flowers. Each section is depicted through shapes of gradient colours.

Look at Dumgoyne

Look at Dumgoyne (2025). 28x40cm. Woodcut on Japanese paper.

Three blocks of wood standing on end to reveal their rings. Each piece has a split across it, with a colourful hill and sky painted on the surface

Woodblocks I, II, and III

Woodblocks I, II, and III (2025). 31x31x7cm, 30.5x27.5x6.5cm, 35.5x38x12cm. Oil based printing ink on Scots pine.

A bead weaving depicting a hill, grass in shadow, and heather flowers.

Dumgoyne Postcard

Dumgoyne Postcard (2025). 8x12cm. Glass, nylon.

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Go Back Home

Go Back Home (2025). 201x128x86cm. Steel, glass, monofilament, acrylic, amethyst, rose quartz, sodalite, and oil paint.

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