Irvine Burns Club - some recent major projects
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The renowned artist Alan Herriot was commissioned to create a unique bronze sculpture to mark the 250th anniversary of the Bard's birth and the 2009 Scottish Year of Homecoming. He has work in private collections and on public display throughout the UK, Ireland, Holland and France, including the sculptures of a Highland Division piper at the House of Bruar, his Miner at Newtongrange, and The Ancient Mariner at Watchet in Somerset. The new sculpture is enhancing the Irvine Burns Museum and providing a further fascinating visitor attraction.
See our separate page on the sculpture


Other recent projects

The Parish Church window (1995; pictured left; click to enlarge) - see Stained Glass Windows

The Masterclasses (1996) - see How to Support Us

The audio-visual updated (1996-97) - see Burns in Irvine

The window for the Club's 175th anniversary (2001; pictured right; click to enlarge) - see Stained Glass Windows

The St Mary's Chapel window (2004) - see Stained Glass Windows

Schools Project (enhanced 2006) - see Schools Project

The Club also initiated the 1996-97 re-landscaping of the statue of Burns on Irvine Moor, pictured on our front page - see statue. It was sculpted by J Pittendrigh Macgillivray, RSA, and unveiled in front of huge crowds in July 1896.

a local school pupil reciting in the North Ayrshire Council Burns competition (Mar.05) in our Music Room, with the mural of the Irvine skyline, designed by Edward Odling and painted by Gordon Brown (photo courtesy of Jan Bernhard Rønhaug)
click to enlarge it

The window donated to the St Mary's Church, in the year of office of Fr W Boyd as President of the Burns Club.