This commission was awarded as the result of a limited competition between 4 stained glass artists.
It was jointly funded by the SDA and the Three United Trades & The Nine Incorporated Trades.
The window was to be a memorial to the Rev T.R.S.Campbell who was Minister of the church and Chaplain to the Trades for over thirty years.
The theme to be "the symbols of the Three United Trades & the Nine Incorporated Trades".
It was also desired that "the various emblems or tools of the trades be informally arranged within the overall design of the window grouping the Nine Trades and the Three united trades with a suggestion of separateness".
The Three United Trades are: Masons, Wrights, Slaters.
The Nine Incorporated Trades are; Bakers, Shoemakers, Glovers, Tailors, Bonnetmakers, Fleshers, Hammermen, Weavers, Dyers.

During my research for this project, I noted that there were three sites of major importance to the Trades:
The Howff, a graveyard in the centre of Dundee where the various trades held their meetings until 1776.
The Trades Hall which was built by the Trades for their meetings, this was demolished in 1878.
St. Andrews Church which is the church of the Trades. The window is situated in this church.
The window has three major openings and I decided that these sites should be incorporated.

In order to make the images in the centre panels of greater interest than a single perspective view, I used cubism to expand the subject.
Around the two lower panels there runs a wide border into which I included the tools of the trades. In the remaining spaces, I show hands using the tools.
Around the upper panel which shows the church, I included the symbols of the Trinity.

I still consider this to be a very appropriate solution to the given brief.
The shape of the window is unusual and in some way seemed to be made for this solution which is essentially a 'Historic Document'. The linking of the three meeting places of the trades with the tools that built them, the linking of the tools with the hands that use them. The hands praying toward the centre panel which contains the church and the Trinity.