Billy Connolly’s Glasgow

The Fairfield Heritage Centre sits behind a grand, A-listed facade of Italian Renaissance Revival style on Govan Road. This building once served as the headquarters for the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, where thousands of…

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a massive, Spanish Baroque-style palace built from red Locharbriggs sandstone. It sits prominently on the banks of the River Kelvin, designed by architects Sir John W. Simpson and E. J. Milner…

The King’s Theatre occupies the corner of Bath Street and Elmbank Street, distinguished by its polished red sandstone facade and a curving, domed angle bay. Designed by architect Frank Matcham and opened in nineteen oh four, this Edwardian…

The Pavilion Theatre stands out for its glazed, buff-colored terracotta facade, a French Renaissance exterior that has marked the corner of Renfield and Renfrew streets since nineteen oh four. Opened on February twenty-ninth of that year,…

The Glasgow City Chambers dominates the eastern side of George Square with a grand, imposing facade of Victorian stone. Crowning the building’s peak stands a figure of Truth, which locals often call Glasgow’s Statue of Liberty because of…

Glasgow became home to several massive portraits of the comedian Billy Connolly in twenty seventeen. These works were commissioned by BBC Scotland to mark his seventy-fifth birthday, with each portrait based on an original piece by a…

The Clutha bar is marked by a series of colorful, photorealistic murals painted across its exterior walls, which depict the diverse musicians and cultural figures who frequented the venue over the decades. A large-scale portrait of…

In two thousand seventeen, Glasgow commissioned three massive, fifty-foot portraits to mark the seventy-fifth birthday of the comedian Billy Connolly. These murals were spread across the city center, transforming gable ends into tributes…