Artist Obituary
Artist and Tutti Frutti writer John Byrne dies, aged 83
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 side.
He was born in Paisley and trained at the Glasgow School of Art. He worked as a painter and designer whose work included album covers for his friend, the singer Gerry Rafferty.
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Alastair MacKinven, the mesmeric British painter and performer, has died aged 53 after a long illness.
Born in Clatterbridge, UK, in 1971, MacKinven studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Canada, and Goldsmiths in London. He first attracted attention as an enigmatic performer, before becoming more widely known as a painter.
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James Lee Williams, better known as drag queen The Vivienne, has died aged 32.
Publicist Simon Jones said the performer, who died over the weekend, was “an incredibly loved, warm-hearted and amazing person”.
The Vivienne starred in musical theatre and TV productions, and won the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019.
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Pal Enger, a talented Norwegian football player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting from the National Gallery in Oslo, has died.
Tina Wulf, press officer at Valerenga Fotball, an acclaimed Oslo soccer club for which Enger played as a teenager, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the 57-year-old had died on Saturday evening.
