Life
John Byrne was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire where he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and educated at the town's St Mirin's Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art from 1958 to 1963. Byrne has received several Honorary Doctorates: in 1997 he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paisley, in 2004 he was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, in 2006 he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the Robert Gordon University Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and in 2011 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee.
He currently lives in Nairn, in the Highland region of Scotland. He maintains a living arrangement with his partner, Jeanine Davies, while Swinton, mother to their twins Honor and Xavier, lives across the street with her boyfriend, Sandro.
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