Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
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Jun 24, 2014 · A portrait of Tilda Swinton by her former lover John Byrne shows her dressed in a dark Pierrot costume and mauve stilettos, one arm raised over her head in a ballet dancer's pose. A foot...
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Mar 26, 2021 · Tilda Swinton met the playwright and painter John Byrne in the mid-80s when she was still working in theater. In 1990, they became a couple and moved to Scotland. In 1997, she gave birth to twins, Honor and Xavier Swinton Byrne. Unlike many of her colleagues, Swinton raised her children in Scotland and even taught them Gaelic.
Actress Tilda Swinton and partner artist John Byrne attend the book launch for the 100th Canongate Classic at the National Gallery on April 27, 2004... Carole Bouquet, Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton attend the Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January...
This portrait was painted by Swinton’s former partner, John Byrne (1940–2023) . Byrne said of this portrait: ‘I always wanted to paint what I thought of as a ‘formal’ in the sense of substantial, life-sized and quintessentially her.
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John Byrnewas born into a family of Irish Catholic descent in Paisley, Renfrewshire, where he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and was educated at the town’s St Mirin’s Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art (1958–63). Byrne has received several Honorary Doctorates: In 1997, from the University of Paisley; in 2006, from the Robe...
John Byrne is perhaps best known as the writer of The Slab Boys Trilogy. He has also been regarded as one of Scotland’s foremost television writers. He had also designed for the Traverse, 7:84, Hampstead Theatre, Bush Theatre, Scottish Opera and the Citizens Theatre. For the original 7:84 production of The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil...
From 1964 until 1966, Byrne designed jackets for Penguin Books. Having had his work rejected by various galleries, Byrne had success following an exhibition of works at London’s Portal Gallery in 1967. Painted under the pseudonym of “Patrick”, Byrne claimed the dream-like paintings were created by his father, an alleged self-taught painter of faux-...
Jul 29, 2022 · Byrne is a figurative artist whose work is grounded in his exploration of the human experience which can be seen at the centre of both his scripts and his visual artworks. Portrait of Tilda ...
Jun 28, 2014 · Among the highlights will be a number of striking portraits of the actress Tilda Swinton, the artist’s former partner; iconic images of Billy Connolly, whom Byrne first met through their...
