Retrospective of ‘genius’ artist John Patrick Byrne opens in Glasgow

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The first retrospective of the “genius” artist and playwright John Patrick Byrne for more than two decades opens in Glasgow on Friday. For me it’s certainly been a fun, Big Adventure all these years.” He is, without question, one of the most important artists of the last 70 years and he is so prolific Martin Craig, Glasgow Life Museums Tilda Swinton came to see the exhibition privately on Wednesday and was said to have loved it. Martin Craig, curator of Art post 1945 at Glasgow Life Museums, who put the exhibition together, said: “It’s been an absolute joy working with John on this exhibition. A Big Adventure is filled to the gunwales with striking artwork, I hope it captures the anarchic, jubilation and vastness of John’s life and career.” He added: “Tilda was in seeing the exhibition on Wednesday and she said that she loved it which meant a lot.” The last Byrne retrospective took place at Paisley Museum in 2000.