That the Parliament recognises the work of Tim Stead, who died in April 2000, and the trust in his name in preserving The Steading in Blainslie, near Lauder, which is the family home of the sculptor, furniture maker, environmentalist and poet; notes that his work ranged from high art to public seating, sometimes combined, making furniture for galleries, castles, cathedrals and for Pope John Paul II for his visit to Murrayfield in 1981; further notes that three of his most powerful pieces relate to architecture, which were the rood screen and furniture for the North Sea Oil Industries Memorial Chapel in Aberdeen with initialed letters of the woods used in the chair backs spelling out the simple but poignant "We remember yew", the piece, Peephole, for the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, which was an extraordinary tiny space from which one could spy into the gallery below, and the Millennium Clock Tower in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, where he collaborated with Edouard Bersudsky of Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Annica Sandström of Lindean Mill Glass, and Jurgen Tübbecke of Peebles; recognises that the trust was established in 2015 with the aid of his widow, Maggy Stead, to raise enough funding to purchase The Steading, which was his home for many years until his health failed, and is now widely recognised as his single most important work together with the Tim Stead Archive contained therein, with a view to develop and safeguard its future for the public benefit; believes that this represents an influential and internationally significant example of Scottish craftsmanship and environmental philosophy, and welcomes the trust to the Parliament for its exhibition in the Members’ Lobby between 14 and 16 November 2017.