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  • 16/04/2025
A new Billy Connolly mural has appeared in the city centre.

Renowned street artist duo ConzoGlobel, made up of Conzo Throb and Ciaran Globel, created the work at Nelson Mandela Place, showing the comedian in his famous big banana feet, paying tribute to Connolly and the Paisley-born artist John Byrne, taking inspiration from his painting.
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00:00A new Billy Connolly mural has appeared in the city centre. Renowned street artist duo,
00:05Konzo Global, made up of Konzo Throb and Keenan Global, created the work at Nelson Mandela Place,
00:11showing the comedian in his big banana feet, paying tribute to Connolly and the Paisley
00:16Bourne artist John Byrne, taking inspiration from his painting. The work is self-initiated
00:21and was painted on the front of boarded up units. Konzo Global made headlines in 2023,
00:27when they painted a fake Banksy on a wall near the Goma, where at the time the official Banksy
00:33exhibition Cut and Run was taking place. They wanted to initiate conversation about the value
00:39of street art. As they noted, Glasgow City Council spends the most in covering up graffiti than any
00:44other city in the UK. They wanted to show hypocrisy within street art and graffiti, where some works
00:50are praised and some are removed without consideration for the artistic value. The pair
00:55posted their new work on Instagram with the caption, The Big Yin, a two-in-one ode to the legends Billy
01:01Connolly and the late great John Byrne and his painting, Billy Connolly Entertainer 2002.
01:08This makes the fourth mural in Glasgow dedicated to the comedian. The three others are each 50 foot
01:14tall and cover the side of buildings. They were commissioned in 2017 by BBC Scotland to commemorate
01:21his 75th birthday and highlight the different points in his career and are also part of Glasgow's
01:26official city centre mural trail. One is painted in the Galagate, another on the side of Hootenanny's
01:31barn, Dixon Street and the other just off of Osborne Street. It is the latter that caused controversy last
01:37year. When it was announced, it would be covered up as plans to build student accommodation and the site next to it had been approved.
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