Brand New!! 3 Portraits Of Billy Connolly
Monday, 4 February 2019
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Back inwards May 2017, 3 portraits of the Big Yin - Billy Connolly - or Sir Billy Connolly every bit he is at i time designated - were unveiled every bit giant fifty ft/15m high murals inwards Glasgow every bit a tribute to his 75th birthday. (see Billy Connolly murals inwards Glasgow – the city’s birthday gift to the Big Yin at 75).
The portraits are past times the Scottish artists - Jack Vettriano, Rachel Maclean and John Byrne.
The procedure of creating the portraits was filmed past times the BBC together with tin endure seen on iPlayer every bit Billy Connolly - Portrait of a Lifetime.
The programme involves him talking well-nigh his life amongst each of the artists together with is worth watching if alone to run into how each artists addresses the conundrum of how to portray Billy Connolly.
The self-taught creative mortal who paints from photographs - who portrayed Billy from a withal from the Billy's telly programme World Tour of Scotland series inwards 1994. It features a really windblown Billy on a storm-lashed coast close John O’Groats
Personally I intend the Vettriano portrait is absolutely awful. He dislocated his shoulder inwards 2015 together with announced at the fourth dimension that he could no longer paint. Whether or non he is dorsum to fine fettle every bit an artist, the fact remains it simply doesn't hold back similar Billy Connolly!
His mural tin endure seen on a wall destination in in Dixon Street close St Enoch Square.
She industrial plant predominantly amongst videos together with digital prints. She created a particular costume based on his jokes. This came
Her printed mural is on the Gallowgate close Barrowland Park.
John Byrne is manifestly the most accomplished draughtsman together with I was really interested watching him depict Billy every bit he is now. However I idea it was a preliminary written report for a icon together with I was rather disappointed to notice it wasn't going to endure converted into a painting.
His mural tin endure found on a wall destination inwards Osborne Street, Glasgow.
The portraits are past times the Scottish artists - Jack Vettriano, Rachel Maclean and John Byrne.
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| Crops of the portraits of Billy Connolly past times Jack Vettriano, Rachel McLean together with John Byrne |
The procedure of creating the portraits was filmed past times the BBC together with tin endure seen on iPlayer every bit Billy Connolly - Portrait of a Lifetime.
The programme involves him talking well-nigh his life amongst each of the artists together with is worth watching if alone to run into how each artists addresses the conundrum of how to portray Billy Connolly.
Jack Vettriano
The self-taught creative mortal who paints from photographs - who portrayed Billy from a withal from the Billy's telly programme World Tour of Scotland series inwards 1994. It features a really windblown Billy on a storm-lashed coast close John O’GroatsPersonally I intend the Vettriano portrait is absolutely awful. He dislocated his shoulder inwards 2015 together with announced at the fourth dimension that he could no longer paint. Whether or non he is dorsum to fine fettle every bit an artist, the fact remains it simply doesn't hold back similar Billy Connolly!
His mural tin endure seen on a wall destination in in Dixon Street close St Enoch Square.
Rachel McLean
Rachel represented Scotland this twelvemonth at the Venice Biennale. She was born inwards 1987 inwards Edinburgh together with lives together with industrial plant inwards Glasgow. Her start degree, a BA Honours Drawing together with Painting was at the Edinburgh College of Art, followed past times a stint at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USAShe industrial plant predominantly amongst videos together with digital prints. She created a particular costume based on his jokes. This came
replete amongst motifs from his career such every bit ‘mini wheel parked inwards bum’ epaulettes, a sporran amongst an ‘aged’ olfactory organ sprouting hair, together with make-up reflecting his famous ‘pale bluish Scotsman’ joke, amongst representations of Glasgow life past times together with acquaint inwards the backgroundI idea Rachel Mclean's approach to making a portrait was both ingenious together with really inwards keeping amongst the form of human being Billy Connolly is. I'm non together with then certain I similar the really black digital impress which was chosen for the mural. The video below shows the extract from the BBC programme where Billy is shown the costume he's going to wear.
Her printed mural is on the Gallowgate close Barrowland Park.
John Byrne
John Byrne is an former friend of Billy who attended Glasgow College of Art. He's unique inwards beingness both a prominent portrait creative mortal together with a playright. He has paintings inwards the collection of paintings hang inwards The Scottish National Portrait Gallery inwards Edinburgh, the Museum of Modern Art together with the Kelvingrove Art Gallery together with Museum inwards Glasgow. He chose to create a drawing rather than a icon of Billy.John Byrne is manifestly the most accomplished draughtsman together with I was really interested watching him depict Billy every bit he is now. However I idea it was a preliminary written report for a icon together with I was rather disappointed to notice it wasn't going to endure converted into a painting.
His mural tin endure found on a wall destination inwards Osborne Street, Glasgow.
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