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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' Heart .
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' Heart.
Dec 1, 2023 · Tributes have been paid to the Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne, who has died at the age of 83. The Paisley-born polymath had a rich and varied career, which included designing album...
Dec 1, 2023 · The artist and writer John Byrne, who created the acclaimed TV series Tutti Frutti, has died at the age of 83. His family said he died peacefully on Thursday with his wife Jeanine by his...
Dec 1, 2023 · Artist and writer John Byrne has died at the age of 83. Byrne was born in Paisley and trained at the Glasgow School of Art. He worked as a painter and designer and his colour-drenched...
Dec 1, 2023 · The “supremely gifted” playwright and artist John Byrne has died at the age of 83 – leaving behind a lasting legacy in Scottish culture. Byrne is famed for his work in theatre and television...
Jul 29, 2022 · A Big Adventure, John Byrne’s retrospective at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery, offers a fascinating insight into the breadth of skills of one of Scotland’s best-known creative forces.
Lighting up a cigarette before the Royal toast, Byrne incurred the wrath of Academician David Donaldson, placing him, he felt, on ‘a shooglie nail’ at the RSA ever since. Becoming a renowned painter and playwright, Byrne was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2004 and became a full Member in 2007 and with it Byrne’s ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Tributes have been paid to the "supremely talented" artist and playwright John Byrne, creator of TV show Tutti Frutti, who has died at the age of 83.
John Byrne (b.1940) National Galleries of Scotland. Painter, designer and writer, born in Glasgow. He attended the School of Art there, 1958–61; Edinburgh College of Art, 1961–2; Glasgow School of Art, 1962–3; then a travelling scholarship took him to Italy in 1963–4.
