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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 balances ...
- Hannah Duguid
Children. 4, including Honor Swinton. 2013 painted ceiling in the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. John Patrick Byrne (6 January 1940 – 30 November 2023) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin ...
- Glasgow School of Art
- Tilda Swinton (1989–2003)
- 4; including Honor Swinton Byrne
Tilda Swinton, the Oscar-winning actress, has opened an exhibition celebrating the work of her former partner John Byrne, the artist and writer who she said “was an extraordinary part of my life ...
Feb 5, 2022 · Aged 19, the daughter of Tilda Swinton and playwright John Byrne was working in a florist and saving up to travel to Namibia when Hogg, her godmother, asked her to take the leading role in the ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Byrne has painted with greatest tenderness those dearest to him, be it his former partner Tilda Swinton, his wife Jeanine Byrne, his children to his first wife Alice or the twins he brought up with Swinton. His Portrait of John and Celie shows his two older children as pensive figures, close yet looking away from each other, lost in their ...
Dec 1, 2023 · It was a huge success and was followed up three years later by Your Cheatin' Heart, which featured country music and starred Tilda Swinton and John Gordon-Sinclair. Byrne continued to write and paint.
John Byrne @ 60 was held at Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, 2000, and New Works were shown at the Fine Art Society in 2004. Byrne was married to the actress Tilda Swinton and lived in a seaside town near Inverness, Scotland.
